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OK, now what? (feddit.uk)
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[–] 57 points 3 years ago (3 children)

Somebody needs to find whoever was responsible for the original NT task manager and learn a thing or two. That thing was bulletproof. I had servers over the years that were so broken nothing else would run but you hit CTRL-ALT-DEL and tada!

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  • [–] 47 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    David Plummer, he has a YouTube channel "Dave's garage" he has a couple of videos dedicated to Taskmanager and even a look at the source for his first version. That and other cool stuff on windows and other tech.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    One of his videos about task manager is one of those YouTube videos that just won't go away from being suggested for me.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    He has a YouTube channel. Dave's Garage

    https://youtu.be/Ve95Nh690l0

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    for the love of god, for the past 27 years it's been ctrl-shift-esc (since like NT 4.0), while ctrl-alt-del opens up the security menu thing. I can't believe I'm saying this..

    i thought programmers liked doing things faster

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago*

    CTRL+SHIFT+ESC is simply a keyboard shortcut and is useless on a locked up system, it dies with the shell. CTRL+ALT+DEL throws a hardware interrupt, which contributed to the aforementioned bulletproof nature.

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