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Most of them use it multiple times per day. People in networking environments still use Ctrl+ Alt+ Del every day. With Windows 2000 and further versions of Windows NT (Windows 7 is Windows NT 6.1) Microsoft kept Ctrl+ Alt+ Del in these versions, and changed the reputation of this concurrent key press combination to something that makes people feel safe en empowered. Also, new file systems have made it more safe to just press and hold the power switch to the box without the risk of losing data(flow). The fact is, Windows systems are infinitely more reliable than they were fifteen years ago. (coincidentally also introducing a new kernel, the first time a Service Pack did that) Of course, this did not happen without a hitch, looking at the appalling rate display drivers had problems in Windows Vista with version 1 of the Windows Display Driver Model (WDDM) and the fuzz many anti-malware producers made with the release of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 in regards to Kernel Patch Protection. ( perfmon.exe /rel will show you your systems score) System stability is the result, as the last laptops of my wife pointed out with perfect 10s in their Reliability Indexes. Several initiatives, like MinWin and the trustworthy computing initiative, combined with clear ‘laws’ and ‘boundaries’ from an architecture point of view, have untangled the many user mode hooks that had direct access to the kernel, the core of the Operating System. You’ve guessed it, pressing ctrl, alt and del at the same time was the answer here too.įirst of all, Microsoft has done a tremendous job in Windows to streamline the Operating System. Hanging applications (with the absence of preemptive multitasking in these earlier Operating Systems) would hang an entire box. Pressing ctrl, alt and del at the same time was the only resolution to reboot the box.

One bug in Windows 98 was that you couldn’t leave it running for more than 42 days the uptime counter was limited and the box would stall. Unfortunately,not everything was easy with Windows 95 and Windows 98. This was the era in which Microsoft released and supported Windows 3 and Windows 9x. I’m talking about the age that Microsoft now refers to as the Windows on DOS era. Now it’s a key press combination that makes users feel safe and empowered.

I may be a dinosaur, because I still remember the time when Ctrl– Alt– Deleting a box was a bad thing, a sign of weakness, sometimes even a necessity.