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- From: papresco@cantor.math.uwaterloo.ca (Paul Prescod)
- Subject: Re: Hot-key to kill WPS?
- Message-ID: <BzI7rI.DpI@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu>
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- Organization: University of Waterloo
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- Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 11:26:05 GMT
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- >Well, I consistently have a problem with PMGlobe (32bit version) locking things
- >up. Ctrl-Esc will tell me this is so, and offer to let me kill the task but it
- >won't die, Ctrl-Alt-Del time. No way to reach anything useful like PSPM to
- >kill it any other way. I have had the Desktop to report itself locked, and if
- >kill is selected, the desktop will restart. Hmm, missed the Ctrl-Alt-Numlock
- >trick when it was discussed earlier, will have to try that the next time the
- >system locks up.
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- As far as I am concerned, IBM really, really, wasted Ctrl-Alt-Del.
- C-A-D is a hardware interrupt, so as long as the handler isn't
- corrupted, it should ALWAYS get the system's attnetion. And I've never
- had a case when I couldn't reboot with ctrl-alt-del. So why couldn't
- the C-A-D handler bring up a menu: "Kill WPS, Start cmd.exe session,
- attempt shutdown, Reboot."
-
- For those that REALLY wanted to fast reboot, (though it's not a good
- idea) they could hit ctrl-alt-del and del again. It's not like it's a
- lot of extra hassle.
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