Resolved Bring back the old Ctrl+Alt+Del

The Windows XP Ctrl+Alt+Del is much different than vista and 7.

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Is there any registry hack that anyone knows of to bring back the old screen in Windows 7?

 

I saw that entry here using Ultimate Windows Tweaker v 2.0...

 

just have to throw my two cents in here.

i have used, in the last 30+ years more than 35 different operating systems if you add up all of the versions and variants of UNIX / Linus, DEC VAX/VMS, Microsoft, NeXT and Apple.

The good OS's don't have that capability. Only Microsoft, to my current knowledge, has this distinction along with Blue Screens of Death.

 

yes.

I remember back when i was using UNIX system III, i had made a very large blunder. i was deleteing an horrendous amount of files that were not supposed to be deleted. rm -r * will recurse down and delete everything it finds. no questions asked. When i realized i was in an 'upper' directory I imediatly hit the CTRL-ALT-DEL to kill the machine. Nothing happended. So i dove under the desk and pulled the plug.

CTRL-ALT-DEL, at least years ago was something you used to reboot the system, usually when it locked up.

In the UNIX world you could lock up processes but you could not 'kill' the OS because it was protected. It stayed running no matter how badly your program that you have just written was behaving.

 

Ctr+Alt+Del

I use Ctrl+Shift+Esc

 

Excellent tip, thanks.

 

Right-click on the task bar and click "Start Task Manager ". If that's still too slow, you can plant a shortcut of Task Manager on your desktop or taskbar. I have had the need only once but am very grateful that I had made the effort to always make sure to create that shortcut.

 

What's CTR+ALT+DEL again? I use CTRL+SHIFT+ESC and it's better.

 

Ctrl-Alt-Del works the same way in Win7 as it did with XP & Vista - except it absorbs the entire screen. Then you can choose the Task Manager and you're back where you want to be. Or you can use Ctrl-Shift-Esc like I learned when XP 1st came out to skip the interim screen.