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    Ctrl+Alt+Del Tool For a One-Handed Reboot
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    03/17/09

    In reply to Ctrl+Alt+Del Tool For a One-Handed Reboot
    So you mean pressing and holding the power button until my PC shuts down isn't the right way to do it??
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    Image of discounteggroll discounteggroll
    03/16/09

    In reply to Ctrl+Alt+Del Tool For a One-Handed Reboot
    ::thinks about Shift + Apple + Option + Q key tool for a speedy logout::


    ...nah

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    Image of Serolf Divad Serolf Divad
    03/16/09

    In reply to Ctrl+Alt+Del Tool For a One-Handed Reboot
    I kinda miss the satisfaction of watching my system reboot he instant I hit Ctr+Alt+Del. There was something very gratifying about kick-starting a locked up computer in that way. It was sort of like that scene in "Wanted: Dead or Alive" in which Rutger Hauer blows up Gene Simmons by pulling the pin on the hand-grenade he's shoved into his mouth. In a way, all pre-windows XP computers had a hand-grenade already shoved into their mouths.
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    03/16/09

    In reply to Ctrl+Alt+Del Tool For a One-Handed Reboot
    I just use the power button.
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    Image of vmspionage vmspionage
    03/16/09

    In reply to Ctrl+Alt+Del Tool For a One-Handed Reboot
    Isn't that a Ctrl+Alt+. tool?
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    Image of BeautifulAgony BeautifulAgony
    03/16/09

    @vmspionage: @deathbytray: Which is also a delete key, if you've ever seen a keyboard within the past fifteen years, or, like... ever.
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    Image of Scazza Scazza
    03/16/09

    In reply to Ctrl+Alt+Del Tool For a One-Handed Reboot
    Umm, you can use CTRL SHIFT ESC with one left hand on any modern computer to open up the task manager.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_My Brute Dojo CDIAFIFE GitEmSteveDave_My Brute Dojo CDIAFIFE
    03/16/09

    In reply to Ctrl+Alt+Del Tool For a One-Handed Reboot
    That explains the error message I once got saying the fingers I was using to log in were too fat and to mash the 10 keypad to order a "Ca-terl, Alt, Delete Wand".
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    Image of combat chuck combat chuck
    03/16/09

    In reply to Ctrl+Alt+Del Tool For a One-Handed Reboot
    Doing a one-handed Ctrl-Alt-Del on a standard keyboard is easy. Using your right hand:


    Thumb on the right Alt key.

    Pinky on the right Ctrl key.

    Ring finger on the Del key just above the arrow keys.


    Note: this may not work if you have short, stubby, fat fingers.

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    Image of Purple Dave Purple Dave
    03/17/09

    @combat chuck:
    I have long fingers, and find that I have much better luck to just reach over with the left hand:


    Pinky = R-Alt
    Thumb = R-Ctrl
    Index = arrow-key Delete


    Of course, this isn't really an option on my laptop (when I'm not at home where I keep a proper keyboard plugged into it), but only because the only Ctrl key is on the opposite corner from the only Del key.

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    Image of Epoch Epoch
    03/16/09

    In reply to Ctrl+Alt+Del Tool For a One-Handed Reboot
    haha, i love the concept.

    unfortunately, it'd take longer to locate the tool than to do the "three finger salute" manually.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    03/16/09

    In reply to Ctrl+Alt+Del Tool For a One-Handed Reboot
    Or if you only have one hand.


    Maybe someone should make a keyboard with a standalone button that combines the functionality of these three keys, provided it doesn't exist already.

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    Image of Sam Healer Sam Healer
    03/16/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: Wasn't the point of choosing Ctrl-Alt-Del that you couldn't press it accidentally? A button for that would end up defeating the purpose.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_My Brute Dojo CDIAFIFE GitEmSteveDave_My Brute Dojo CDIAFIFE
    03/16/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: Isn't that the "panic" button?
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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    03/16/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: Thumb on the right ALT, forefinger on the right CTRL and middle finger on the Delete key above the arrow keys.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    03/16/09

    @Sam Healer: Noted.


    @NewPerfection: Likewise.


    @ThatIdiotJeffrey_GitEmSteveDav...: YES!


    @ripfire: Didn't think of that.

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    Image of Syrax Syrax
    03/16/09

    @ripfire: That's how I rolled.

    Now I only use Shift+Ctrl+Esc to zap the process from its roots.
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    03/16/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: It's called the power button. Only takes one finger.
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    Image of Gann Gann
    03/16/09

    @ripfire: I thought everybody did that.
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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    03/16/09

    In reply to Ctrl+Alt+Del Tool For a One-Handed Reboot
    Back in the days, we call it the FixIt tool.
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    Image of CrispyAardvark CrispyAardvark
    03/16/09

    @ripfire: Still AKA "The Three Finger Salute"..
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    Image of Geisrud Geisrud
    03/16/09

    None of this explains why he's pressing CTRL+ALT+.


    No delete keypress in sight in that picture

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    Image of Nick Nick
    03/16/09

    In reply to Ctrl+Alt+Del Tool For a One-Handed Reboot
    that looks harder to use than two hands. hahaha that's what she said... oh noes.
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