ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb Posted February 20, 2005 Report Share Posted February 20, 2005 On all my computers (Win2K & WinXP) I use ALT-CTRL-DEL to shut down Windows. But one (XP-SP2) just opens the Task Manager with ALT-CTRL-DEL. I just seem unable to change that behaviour.Any suggestion how I can make that PC behave like all others?P.S. All Windows are the professional versions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted February 20, 2005 Report Share Posted February 20, 2005 The double CTRL + Alt + Del feature for shutting down was not included as a part of WXP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarecrow Man Posted February 21, 2005 Report Share Posted February 21, 2005 You must press it, and select Shut Down from the options. If the letter has a _ under it, you can press alt+the letter to preform that option.For example, shut down is probably u. so press alt+u and it will shut down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb Posted February 21, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 21, 2005 Thanks for the replies. I think I was not very clear in my question. What I meant is this: all my Windows systems, like this W2K, open this panel on ALT-CTRL-DELI get a similar panel for all my XP systems, except one, which opens the Task Manager on ALT-CTRL-DEL. That Task Manager does have a Shutdown option, but I'd prefer to just get the same panel on all systems.There must be a way to specify that, but I seem to be unable to find our how. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cpt James T. Kirk Posted February 21, 2005 Report Share Posted February 21, 2005 its like they said xp dont work that way. when you hit ctrl/alt/del it opens the task manager at the yop is a option to shut down if you click it. thats the way xp works. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb Posted February 21, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 21, 2005 its like they said xp dont work that way. when you hit ctrl/alt/del it opens the task manager at the yop is a option to shut down if you click it. thats the way xp works.Ah no - the XP I am on right now gets me the same Options as Win2K: Lock Computer, Log Off, Shut Down, Change Password, Task Manager, and Cancel. (I can't take a screen shot of it, as this is a native Windows installation; the W2K shot was on VMWare). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted February 21, 2005 Report Share Posted February 21, 2005 Thanks for the replies. I think I was not very clear in my question. What I meant is this: all my Windows systems, like this W2K, open this panel on ALT-CTRL-DELI get a similar panel for all my XP systems, except one, which opens the Task Manager on ALT-CTRL-DEL. That Task Manager does have a Shutdown option, but I'd prefer to just get the same panel on all systems.There must be a way to specify that, but I seem to be unable to find our how.I have built upwards of 100 XP systems and never seen a screen such as the one you show by pressing CTRL-ALT-DEL.Do the machines where this screen appears have additions that may cause this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb Posted February 21, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 21, 2005 Do the machines where this screen appears have additions that may cause this?No, not at all. But I may have found something - I will try that later (at home)http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...q291559&sd=techP.S. The official keyboard shortcut to open the Task Manager is CTRL-SHIFT-ESC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cpt James T. Kirk Posted February 21, 2005 Report Share Posted February 21, 2005 on mine xp home w/sp2 when i hit ctrl/alt/del the task manager comes up and at the top it lists: file options view windows shutdown and help. and you hit shutdown if thats what you want it to do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted February 21, 2005 Report Share Posted February 21, 2005 I've just double checked my three machines and asked my son, who has sixteen of them, to check. None of them behave the way you say yours do.I'm not suggesting that you are wrong, just that there seems to be something about some of your computers that is different to the norm.As a point of interest, the "official" way to open task manager is:To open Windows Task Manager, right-click an empty space on the taskbar, and then click Task Manager.From Windows XP Help & Support. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb Posted February 21, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 21, 2005 Ok, from lots of Googling around in the past 1 hour I think it may be that the one machine (at home) that opens the Task Manager is the only one that is not connected to a network domain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb Posted February 22, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 22, 2005 My assumption yesterday was that (domain) network computers behave "normally", i.e. CTRL-ALT-DEL will pop-up the shutdown menu, and non-networked computers will open the Task Manager.Very strange, indeed, and hardly believable. So I decided to test it. I installed a brand-new XP Professional system on WMWare. Although it is connected to the network, I only login as the local Administrator. I change nothing, except the keyboard layout and date & time format. Then I click CTRL-ALT-DEL:This is for me the "normal" behaviour of Windows since NT4. So why do some systems open the Task Manager on CTRL-ALT-DEL, and others open the 'Windows Security' panel with the Shut Down option?It's a mystery to me... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb Posted February 22, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 22, 2005 Although it is connected to the network, I only login as the local Administrator.Thinking some more about this...Although I only login as a local user, during the installation the computer was joined to a domain. Maybe that makes a difference?Any network expert ever noticed if that makes a difference? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarecrow Man Posted March 9, 2005 Report Share Posted March 9, 2005 That is very likely. Being on a Domain changes a lot of things.Sorry for the late reply. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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