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Bill Gates: Control-Alt-Delete was a mistake
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| 9/26/13
| Doug Gross
Posted on 09/26/2013 3:34:53 PM PDT by shego
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To: Abby4116
Control alt del and msconfig made PC handymen like me thousands of dollars helping people who didn’t know them.
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posted on
09/26/2013 3:47:54 PM PDT
by
ez
(Muslims do not play well with others.)
To: shego; ShadowAce
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posted on
09/26/2013 3:48:14 PM PDT
by
GeronL
To: shego
A much bigger error was
allegedly Paul Allen's: choosing the backslash as the file path separator back in 1983 just to be different from Unix, which uses the forward slash.
As a matter of fact, in modern Windows, you can use the forward slash internally in software. You just can't use it at the command line, because it confuses the command interpreter, which expects forward-slash to introduce command options.
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posted on
09/26/2013 3:48:55 PM PDT
by
cynwoody
To: shego
It’s a little weird, though, because the IBM keyboard was designed well before ctrl-alt-del was ever used for logging in.
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posted on
09/26/2013 3:49:23 PM PDT
by
andyk
(I have sworn...eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.)
To: Lancey Howard
Escape works on DOS apps that have been written to pay attention to it. Just added that functionality to some tools we have at work. I don’t anybody in the Windows world bothers to capture it.
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posted on
09/26/2013 3:50:24 PM PDT
by
discostu
(This is Jack Burton in the Pork Chop Express, and I'm talkin' to whoever's listenin' out there.)
To: piytar
It's not like they couldn't produce a new keyboard later
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posted on
09/26/2013 3:50:34 PM PDT
by
GeronL
To: shego
Is he drunk?
I never logged on with ctr-alt-delete.
But then, Gates thought no one would ever need more than 640 k memory either.
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posted on
09/26/2013 3:50:52 PM PDT
by
Hardraade
(http://junipersec.wordpress.com (Obama: the bearded lady of the Muslim Brotherhood))
To: shego
So he’s learned to blame others for his screw-ups from his idol?
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posted on
09/26/2013 3:53:00 PM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(You can't invade the mainland US There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
To: shego
Bill Gates should be spending every waking public moment apologizing for the obscenity that is Windows 8.
It is single-handedly killing the PC market.
To: knarf
A plane crashes on the border of Canada and the US ... in which country were the survivors buried ?They are buried where their relatives want to bury them.
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20 or so years later when they finally die.
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posted on
09/26/2013 3:53:42 PM PDT
by
bgill
(This reply was mined before it was posted.)
To: Abby4116
Ctrl-Shift-ESC brings up the Task Manager, at least in XP, which is the latest I’ve got.
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posted on
09/26/2013 3:54:21 PM PDT
by
cynwoody
To: andyk
It rebooted back in the day. Which actually shows it wasn’t a mistake, who the heck wants a one key any cat can step on it reboot.
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posted on
09/26/2013 3:55:27 PM PDT
by
discostu
(This is Jack Burton in the Pork Chop Express, and I'm talkin' to whoever's listenin' out there.)
To: Lancey Howard
The “ESC” key is to escape from whole screen video pages.
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posted on
09/26/2013 3:56:35 PM PDT
by
bgill
(This reply was mined before it was posted.)
To: discostu
Give that man a cigar - that is the way it worked on the first PCs.
To: altsehastiin
Make that apologizing for everything this side of 95.
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posted on
09/26/2013 3:59:06 PM PDT
by
bgill
(This reply was mined before it was posted.)
To: shego
i will never forget when i was having trouble with the computer a 3 year old said “hit escape!” . i almoat fell over.
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posted on
09/26/2013 3:59:13 PM PDT
by
Donnafrflorida
(Thru HIM all things are possible.)
To: Hardraade
Is he drunk? I never logged on with ctr-alt-delete.
The rationale for using the three-finger salute to login was to keep people from being fooled into revealing their password by entering it into a spoofed login dialog. The idea was that Ctrl-Alt-Del would not be trappable except by the OS, so the OS would always be able to show a legitimate login dialog.
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posted on
09/26/2013 4:02:00 PM PDT
by
cynwoody
To: shego
Control-Alt-Delete and pulling the plug out of the wall solves about 95% of tech issues with Windows PCs.
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posted on
09/26/2013 4:02:56 PM PDT
by
Arthurio
To: discostu; Lancey Howard
Standard practice when coding dialog boxes in Windows is to interpret as a click on Ok and as a click on Cancel. Still works with most dialogs.
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posted on
09/26/2013 4:04:31 PM PDT
by
Squawk 8888
(I'd give up chocolate but I'm no quitter)
To: Hardraade
It’s still the way to log in if the PC is part of a network domain.
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posted on
09/26/2013 4:05:25 PM PDT
by
Squawk 8888
(I'd give up chocolate but I'm no quitter)
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