I, too, am confused by the responses to this problem. I have built,
repaired, re-built, re-installed, and so on, over 500 PC's in the last 5-7
years. These machines have included just about every PC on the market,
including name-brands and clones. I have NEVER had a Ctrl+Alt+Del reboot a
machine running Windows 95a, 95b, 95c, 98, 98SE, ME, 2000 or XP. I never
worked much with Windows NT, but I don't recall it happening with that OS
either.
Perhaps, as the original poster asked, there may be some BIOS/CMOS setting
on those computers that triggers a reboot. Mind you, I have never seen
this setting either, but it certainly is possible. Other than that, I can
tell you that it is not SUPPOSED to happen on the first Ctrl-Alt-Del
sequence with any of those OS's.
Is it also possible that a particular type of keyboard could trigger this
response?
At 07:43 AM 10/17/01, you wrote:
>I have had Win 98 since it came out, and routinely use ctrl/alt/del to
>shutdown stuff running in the background before I do installations or disk
>defrags. I wrote an article about it for www.pcwin.com a couple of years
>ago. No one has ever mentioned to me that ctrl/alt/del will shut down
>your computer on the first hit on any version of Win 9x. Maybe if you
>press them and hold them down that happens, although I've never heard that
>either. I do it by holding down ctrl/alt, then tapping delete, which
>always brings up the dialog box showing running apps. I learn something
>new every day.
>
> >I appreciate your response, but I don't think you're totally
> >familiar with what I'm referring to. I visit many computers in
> >my line of work, some of which are Integtra's, Compaq's, American
> >Computer, a lot of clone mfg's etc. I'm referring to a general
> >phenomena that I notice mostly on AT type computers that many of
> >them respond to Ctrl+alt+del, mainly with Win95 or later (not Win
> >3.1) running with a shutdown immediately. <Blip> whatever
> >programs are open, unsaved files...etc you had open is gone with
> >shutdown upon one depression of those series of keys.
> >
> >Dan
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