Methinks he got lucky that his dumb idea got blocked.
What about NUM LOCK? Useless!!!
Begs the question why he didn’t fix it.
C-alt-D doesn’t cause a reboot, it just opens the task manager and other tools. I think it is fine the way it is because you never hit it by accident.
Giving away too much money for queers and overseas abortions does that, billy ....
-PJ
Yup! Also, Ctrl-Alt-Del is iconic now.
Sometimes it really is better to be lucky than good...
I dare you to figure out how to completely turn off your Win 8.1 machine.
If any one has ever worked with DOS 2.0 (yeah, yeah, ancient I know) in assembler, there were a lot of screwy things in there. Always had to remember sides and cylinders were base 0 and sectors were base 1. 12-bit FATs were screwy as well with the center byte reversed. I could go on but the mistake IBM made was hiring Bill Gates with that sweet heart contract they gave him.
Now how about that placebo key up in the upper left corner of the keyboard, the one that says “Esc” and does nothing at all?
I used to tap that key over and over when I accidently clicked on a wrong link or watched an hour glass icon for too long, thinking the key was an “escape”, like it would simply stop the computer from doing whatever it was doing and simply return me to where I was. It took me years to figure out it was actually just a dead key that does absolutely nothing. Okay, the joke was on me, ha ha.
Is everybody at Microsoft still getting a big laugh out of that prank?
It was just a ripoff of Ctrl-Open Apple-Delete, anyway.
Bill Gates... isn’t he the guy who said we’d never need more than 640k of RAM?
Because it's needed so damned often in Windows!
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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.
It’s a little weird, though, because the IBM keyboard was designed well before ctrl-alt-del was ever used for logging in.
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.
So he’s learned to blame others for his screw-ups from his idol?
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.
i will never forget when i was having trouble with the computer a 3 year old said “hit escape!” . i almoat fell over.
Control-Alt-Delete and pulling the plug out of the wall solves about 95% of tech issues with Windows PCs.