Ctrl-alt-backspace

Billie Walsh bilwalsh at swbell.net
Fri Jan 6 13:36:42 UTC 2012


On 01/06/2012 07:20 AM, Alan Pope wrote:
> On 06/01/12 12:42, Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
>> It sounds as if the problem is that a basic and well-used option has
>> been removed and the OP wants it back.
>>
>
> The question was to discover why someone feels the need to kill their
> desktop. As far as I can see it's only 'well used' by people who have
> some other issue with their system. Perhaps a video driver that goes
> haywire, or an app that misbehaves when setting resolution.
>
> Perhaps there's an underlying nut-sized problem which could do with
> addressing rather than using the hammer to crack it.
>
> Al.

Or maybe they need a quick way to hide what their doing when "the boss" 
comes around. *<]:oD

Many years ago some games had a "hide" set of keystrokes that would 
pause the game and instantly change the screen to look like a 
spreadsheet, or some other business like screen, so the boss wouldn't 
know you were playing games on company time.


-- 
“The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain 
the  people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the 
government lest it come to dominate our lives and interests”.

- Patrick  Henry -


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