re: How does one close a window from the keyboard? Sunday, March 19, 2006 at 9:17 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Steve Dunn (925 messages posted) kiwi - don't know what you're on about! Ctrl+Alt+Del in NT based systems has always brought up a menu - one of whose options is task manager. However (and I'm not sure exactly what is responsible) - if you have all service packs and patches installed, it now just brings up task manager (I did start researching why this happens, but as task manager has most of the options on the previous Ctrl+Alt+Del menu - just change password missing, and can do that elsewhere - haven't looked seriously). You can always get something like process explorer from www.sysinternals.com if you want an alternative view of processes. On Sunday, March 19, 2006 at 7:42 am, Kiwi wrote: >The W9X Task Manager was less flexible and useful. It is accessed with Ctrl-Alt-Del. > I tend to run Win98 for doing Internet activity; it's much less targeted, and easier >to defend. So right now I can't compare the three, W98se, W2K, WxP. (I also have >lost the SP2 CD, so currently XP is still fairly naked on the gaming PC I had to >have it on.) > >(And Microsoft is being very stubborn about not answering how to pay the current >$1.50 handling cost without a credit card. Don't say download it; that's 10-12 hours >on dial-up, and interrupted long before ever going that long. No local broadband >competition, so only dialup is affordable.) > >That's neither here nor there, but this is: I don't remember ever using Ctrl-Shift-Esc >for anything in any MS product, but that's what Microsoft's own shortcut list says >to use for Task Manager, and doesn't seem to mention the Ctrl-Alt-Del (I'll look >again, slowly). Nope. That one's not anywhere in their list. > >Any forum readers want to opine why not? > > > > > > . > >Kiwi > >** > Written in response to: re: How does one close a window from the keyboard? (Kiwi: Sunday, March 19, 2006 at 7:42 am) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] How does one close a window from the keyboard? (Paul: Sun, Mar 19, 2006, 5:31 am) re: How does one close a window from the keyboard? (Kiwi: Sun, Mar 19, 2006, 5:38 am) re: How does one close a window from the keyboard? (Paul: Sun, Mar 19, 2006, 6:31 am) re: How does one close a window from the keyboard? (Steve Dunn: Sun, Mar 19, 2006, 7:26 am) re: How does one close a window from the keyboard? (Kiwi: Sun, Mar 19, 2006, 7:42 am) re: How does one close a window from the keyboard? (Steve Dunn: Sun, Mar 19, 2006, 9:17 am) re: Everything was already on that list (Kiwi: Sun, Mar 19, 2006, 7:28 am) re: How does one close a window from the keyboard? (ttterk: Mon, Mar 20, 2006, 12:31 am) re: How does one close a window from the keyboard? (ttterk: Mon, Mar 20, 2006, 12:37 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum