47greyfox
Loc: on the edge of the Colorado front range
Bill Gates may not like it, but even in the the beginning of my personal computer acquisition days (early 80s), I was and continue to be thankful for it. Thanks for sharing. 👍
Much easier is:
Ctrl + Shift + Esc
This combination puts the task manager on top of anything running and does not clear the screen.
Linary wrote:
Much easier is:
Ctrl + Shift + Esc
This combination puts the task manager on top of anything running and does not clear the screen.
Thanks for the tip. I was not aware of it.
IIRC, the MSX machines had two ways of reboot.
One of those used to be pressing [SHIFT]+[CONTROL]+[SELECT],
I think...
But it could be blocked by code and the option would be to
turn it off and restart.
Interesting article.
We should incorporate the phrase "Do a Bradley" for computer work and perhaps for life as in Trump is not working out well for us we need to do a "Bradley."
Have not had to use it for years.
BBurns
Loc: South Bay, California
Here's another one we don't use much anymore: C:/format\u\mbr
You could slove a lot of problems with it.
As one who worked on IBM PCs since 1985, I can assure you that Ctrl-ALt-Del was widely used long before the 90s & Windows.
JamesCurran wrote:
As one who worked on IBM PCs since 1985, I can assure you that Ctrl-ALt-Del was widely used long before the 90s & Windows.
Yes, indeed! Well known and essential.
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