Ctrl+Alt+Del in WinXP

I have Win98 SE, but my friend has WinXP and I was trying to give him advice on XP eventhough I don't actually know anything about it. I told him that hitting Ctrl+Alt+Del would bring up a list of programs he could kill just like it does in Win9x. Was this good/bad advice?

 

Should be okay. It brings up a screen with options. Just push Task Manager button to see processes running.

I have also seen people recommend Startup Cop.

 

I use StartUp Cop myself, but does it work in WinXP?

 

I also experienced the inability to bring up Task Manager using said configuration of keys. My problem was resolved by disabling stick-keys feature that had unknowingly become enabled somehow.

With sticky-keys enabled it requires hitting each key individually rather than as a one- stroke combination. For physical reasons some people are unable to punch all three keys simultainously, and they use the sticky-key function.

 

One time when I was a newbie to Win95 I had enabled the sticky keys feature and then wondered why I couldn't screen capture from my After Dark screensavers with Ctrl+Z anymore.

 

Yeah! Sometimes one overlooks the obvious whether a newbie or not. How many people believed their machine was "down" when the problem was an unplugged machine?

To answer your question, "good/bad" advice? would depend on the undisclosed problem.

 

Startup Cop

I am using Startup Cop with XP. No problems to date.

 

Thanks Jack W. everything I read in trying find out said 9x only. Also read not to use it in 2k. But sometimes it is other things that conflict with a program, other programs or the user themself.