# \[Ctrl\]+\[Alt\]+\[Del\] dont work

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ctrl-alt-del-dont-work/73286>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 21, 2001, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ctrl-alt-del-dont-work/73286 "2001-07-21T04:15:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![Qis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Qis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qis)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2001, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ctrl-alt-del-dont-work/73286/1 "2001-07-21T04:15:53Z")

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This started a few months ago, so my standard regedit - hop back a couple of days wont do anything.

This is kinda driving me insane, cos my computer is a tempremental beast at the best of times, and the three fingered salute was my stick with which to keep it in check.  
Without this tool i am completely helpless, and at the mercy of my computer.

any ideas  
(not sure if this is a general question or what? so i’ll chuck it in here, feel free to move it somewhere else, but at teh moment it is just a niggling thing. i dont really care how i am supposed to sort it, i just wanna know how it happened)

- another good reason to use Linux instead of windows ( ooh, ooh, anyone tell me where i can get an MSNmssger clone for KDE? then i could once and for all escape Windows… that would be heaven. )