CTRL + ALT + Delete Query

Rollo Tamasi

In work we have a user who is disabled and is unable to click the 3 keys above to login. How can these login keys be altered to something more accessible. I couldn't find the settings with the Control Panel.

PC is running Windows XP

petes

Is the computer on a domain?

garthv

You can turn off the option to press ctrl + alt + del if you want?

Dingatron

You need software to remap the keyboard. Try http://webpages.charter.net/krumsick/
or few more hits in google
http://www.google.ie/search?hs=5ot&hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-GB%3Aofficial&q=free+remapping+keyboard+software&btnG=Search&meta=

It can only remap keys though, not combine the strokes to one key etc.

8T8

Ms has a free keyboard/function remapper as part of the Win Server 2003 kit thats works in XP, haven't used it myself but seen Mac users use it for MacBook Pro's to allow them to do Crtl/Alt/Del. So you should be able to change the key combo to something else.

Failing that here try SharpKeys.

Rollo Tamasi

Found the solution.

Within user options in control panel, click on advanced and disable the option for secure login.

This should work by the looks of things

Dingatron

And OT but good none the less. Talking to a supplier the other day and he was telling me about the retirement do of the inventor of CTRL + ALT + Delete, David Bradley

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bradley_%28engineer%29

At a 20-year celebration for the IBM PC, Bradley was on a panel with Microsoft founder Bill Gates and other tech icons. The discussion turned to the keys.

"I may have invented it, but Bill made it famous," Bradley said.

Gates didn't laugh. The key combination also is used when software, such as Microsoft's Windows operating system, fails.

petes

Rollo Tamasi wrote:

Found the solution.

Within user options in control panel, click on advanced and disable the option for secure login.

This should work by the looks of things

Not on a domain then.

trout

Rollo Tamasi wrote:

In work we have a user who is disabled and is unable to click the 3 keys above to login.

sticky keys feature may help ... we also have people in work who have difficulties making some key combinations ... this lets you press the keys once, but it acts as if they are held down for the combo, so you can do the three key shuffle with just one finger .. good luck

http://www.microsoft.com/enable/training/windowsxp/stickykeys.aspx

parliament

press shift five times in a row, a windows box will pop up asking you to click Ok to enable sticky keys. the user will now be able to log on pry pressing CTRL-ALT-DEL in succession instead of all at the same time