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09/17/2006

A Look Back: The Origins of Ctrl + Alt + Del

Most PC users are all too familiar with Ctrl + Alt + Del, but how many of us know the origins of this button combination? Find out after the jump.
[David] Bradley originally designed Control-Alt-Escape to trigger a soft reboot, but he found it was too easy to bump the left side of the keyboard and reboot the computer accidentally. He switched the key combination to Control-Alt-Delete, a combination impossible to press with just one hand
[via Wikipedia - Helldesk]

This entry was posted on 09/17/2006 04:51am and is filed under Computers, Video, Weird .
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