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- From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Hot-key to kill WPS?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.170315.29187@njitgw.njit.edu>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 17:03:15 GMT
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- In article <BzI7rI.DpI@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> papresco@cantor.math.uwaterloo.ca (Paul Prescod) writes:
- >As far as I am concerned, IBM really, really, wasted Ctrl-Alt-Del.
- >C-A-D is a hardware interrupt,
-
- All keyboard input is a hardware interrupt. That's what INT-9 (DOS)
- is for.
-
- >so as long as the handler isn't corrupted, it should ALWAYS get the
- >system's attnetion.
-
- This is also the case with CTRL-ESC and any other system key. But
- sometimes the handler gets corrupted. It's a bug.
-
- >And I've never had a case when I couldn't reboot with ctrl-alt-del.
-
- You've been lucky. I've had WPS lock up completely on occasion,
- CTRL-ALT-DEL would do nothing. Oddly enough, the mouse pointer would
- still move, but that's all that would work. (no, I couldn't click
- anything, either)
-
- >So why couldn't the C-A-D handler bring up a menu: "Kill WPS, Start
- >cmd.exe session, attempt shutdown, Reboot."
-
- It could, and it probably should. But that's not going to cure all
- your problems. And the "kill WPS" should be expanded to a general
- "Kill a process...", and killing any processes should be a built-in
- function - perhaps a menu item on the task list.
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