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My Dear Double-dub, I have no idea. I know a lot more now than when I signed on to this board, but I'm still basically computer-illiterate. But it sounded to me like this c-a-d bit might be a way to get out of that kind of screen take-over.
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Control + Alt + Delete-- is a switch. Some Operating Systems (OS's) use this switch all the time (NT for example)in Windows 3.1, the switch was crude-- all it did was shut down your computer. in newer OS's it is more useful.
and Jackie, the only difference between us is, i have been doing computers longer, and i am more prone to make mistakes.. as i figure out what i did wrong, why and how... i get to know an awful lot. Some of the guys here actually have degrees in Computer science. i have just have been making mistakes for 20 years.. (and hanging out with some of those guys who do have have a CS degree.)
and as for how come you don't start your computer the same way you stop it.. think about your car.. yes, you just turn the key to start it... but it has to be in neutral, and you give it a bit of gas.. but when you park, you first put it in neutral, engage the parking brake, (maybe even turn the wheels.. I think of Kentucky as being mountainous.. i live on a hill, and i always turn my wheels to the curb) and then, finally, after you have done all that, then you turn the key to turn it off.
if you didn't, you would first have to put the car in neutral to start, engage the emergency brake, etc... and you sure don't stop your car in the middle of something (say driving down a highway) by removing the key! You use your brakes.. Hmm.
So why would you expect to start and stop a computer exactly the same way?
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In discussing Con,Alt,Del nobody has mentioned that in Windows 98 it brings up a window "Close Program" which gives you a chance to shut down just the offending program and puts you back to Start. So re-boot is not necessary. I have been using it a lot lately when window changes get unbearably slow. Incidentally some software installs better if in the Close Program window you shut down everything except Explorer and Systray.
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With a Mac (at least with OS X, perhaps Anna knows if it works in earlier versions) you can use command-alt-escape to open a Force quit window that lets you force an incapacitated program to quit. It's actually nicer than the Windows equivalent because you don't see any extra background programs. I guess Apple has made a superior operating system in which background stuff won't malfunction. 
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It figures. We have a perfectly good bawdy thread going -- note titular reference to Mae West and buoyancy -- and the techies digitize it.  Control these alternates! (expletive- deleted -e)
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Froze means froze. All I could do to it was minimize and maximize. I did the control+Alt+delete thing, too, más nada. I have Windows ME.
Keiva: I'll titular reference you!
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Et tu, consuelo?! 
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But of course! I started it, didn't I  ?
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