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It was a setting that could be changed, I think XP is the one that introduced the option to start task manager - because that matches the behaviour of windows 9
by p_l 3y ago
It was a setting that could be changed, I think XP is the one that introduced the option to start task manager - because that matches the behaviour of windows 9x line that they were targeting for replacement.
Windows 9x would open a primitive task manager on Ctrl+Alt+Del
- seabass-labrax 3y agoThat's really interesting. I wonder if the setting was automatically set to 'open Task Manager' when there was only one, unsecured user (and therefore nothing to lock or sign out of). I don't remember changing it, but this was of course well over a decade ago now.
- p_l 3y agoI think XP defaulted to task manager, but I can't be sure, I don't have anything on hand to check. GPO could set different conditions, including replacing fast user switching (the "new" login screen in XP) with Win2k style including enforcing use of System Attention Key (Ctrl-Alt-Delete on PC) to login.