Anyone know why this is? Whenever I hit ctrl-alt-delete, my PC restarts, but if I open task manager by right clicking on the Taskbar, its ok. I ran a virus scan of my windows install with AVG Free, but didn't bother to scan the rest of my drives, as it seems unlikely a virus would sit there.
This is kind of an obscure problem. It seems like a virus, but I don't do any particularly idiotic things that normally heralds viruses, so I am at a loss as to what it could be. I chucked some tea on my keyboard recently. I suppose there is no chance some kind of wierd short circuit generated by that could do it? Seems pretty unlikely, I agree, but I can't think of anything else.
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Anonymous2007-11-13 16:04
ctrl-shift-esc or gtfo
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Anonymous2007-11-13 16:19
Ah hah! That is indeed a somewhat more convinient method of getting into the task manager. Doesn't stop the restarting, though...
I think I have identified the route of the problem, now. It shuts down whenver I press the delete key, a most obscure error. Alas, I only have one keyboard at the moment, but I'll sneak down to the library (university) at 5am and steal one of their keyboards, or something. The joys of a 24 hour library...
Still, its a really wierd problem. I've buggered up keyboards before by dropping tea/coke/booze on them, but that normally just makes certain keeps stop responding. Never have I had restarts due to it.
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Anonymous2007-11-13 18:24
Ctrl+Alt+Del used to be the combination for restarting. Sometimes you'd need to press it twice in a row to restart, though.
You are likely running Windows 95, 98 or ME. If that is the case, you can modify the system.ini file to correct this behavior.
Start -> Run -> msconfig -> SYSTEM.INI tab.
Under the [386Enh] section, change LocalReboot=Off to LocalReboot=On
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Anonymous2007-11-13 18:29
Nope, I'm running XP. I'll check and see if the problem is with the keyboard later...
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Anonymous2007-11-14 1:42
Maybe some weird BIOS setting. But it's very unlikely with that key combination.
Still, check it. I had a similar problem. My computer would turn off any time I killed the X server with CTRL + ALT + BACKSPACE. Turns out that was set in the BIOS.
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