alt, control, delete

[tllraider]

I don't know what I did but when I use alt ,control, delete, I don't get the other screen the computer just reboots ... please help

[JonYoung]

How many times do you press to reboot? does the first time do nothing and then it reboots when you try again, or does the first time cause a reboot?

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[Paleo Pete]

A bit of clarification on Jon's post. The info is correct, but a bit unclear. What he's saying is:

If you press [Ctrl] [Alt] [Del] once, it should bring up the Task Manager. Twice will reboot the machine.

Sometimes it takes time for Task Manager to open, and in some instances it won't open at all. Wait a bit after doing the ol' three finger salute once, and see if Task Manager opens.

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[JonYoung]

Whoops, thanks for clearing that up, chief. I'm a little new to this, and that was confusing.

When you use ctrl alt del does the computer show a blue or black screen after the first time, or does it continue to show the desktop?

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[tllraider]

Originally posted by JonYoung:
Whoops, thanks for clearing that up, chief. I'm a little new to this, and that was confusing.

When you use ctrl alt del does the computer show a blue or black screen after the first time, or does it continue to show the desktop?


I don't know what I did but when I use alt ,control, delete, I don't get the other screen the computer just reboots ... please help

I only hit it once the task manager does not come up and the system reboots so if something freezes up I have no way getting out of the problem the system just reboots

[Paleo Pete]

If you're running win 98 go to Start\Run and type msconfig, click ok. Click the Start Up tab and see if Task Monitor is unchecked, if so put a check in the box to the left, that might do it. Can't think of anything else...

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[Chuck]

See my answer under your duplicate post in the Operating System Troubleshooting and let us know if that worked.

[Paleo Pete]

I closed the other topic, but left it instead of deleting so the info would still be there. Didn't realize it was a duplicate yesterday...

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