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Why not just using Ctrl+Shift+Esc?

• AndrewDucker 15y ago
  Because most people don't know all the keyboard shortcuts. Casual users hunt about for stuff, they don't go and look up what the shortcuts are.
  • jgroome 15y ago
    I'd argue that if most casual users see something isn't immediately available then they assume it's not there at all.
    • a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
      If most casual users see something isn't immediately available, then it is not there. For example, there is almost nothing on the MS Office Ribbon.
• keeperofdakeys 15y ago
  People are used to Ctrl+Alt+Delete, that brought up the task manager in Windows XP when using the welcome screen (the classic login gives the same behaviour as Vista and 7, although it is a window, and not a screen). Then, considering keyboard shortcuts aren't discoverable, a lot of people probably don't know about Ctrl+Shift+Esc.
  • philbarr 15y ago
    I own up that I didn't know about Ctrl+Alt+Esc. Although I'm very happy that I do now...
    • conradfr 15y ago
      You learn it when you need the task manager of a remote server in Terminal Server.
  • yread 15y ago
    Also in win95, 98 and ME. In fact, there it directly opened the Close Program dialog
    • andrewf 15y ago
      Not quite the same. Unlike taskman, the Close Program dialog appeared on a screen by itself and all the other programs are suspended.
      • yread 15y ago
        That's very true. I was mentioning it as a reason why (some of the older) folks use Ctrl+Alt+Del as a way to shut down programs.
• brudgers 15y ago
  CTL-ALT-DEL has been the way to attempt reset via keyboard for almost 30 years. There is no telling what has been mapped to other keyboard combinations by the millions of applications which may be running under Windows.