The Origin of ‘Ctrl + Alt + Del’
by DJ Neawedde | 2nd October 2006
David Bradley describes how he invented the infamous ‘Ctrl+Alt+Del’ command, a signature of Windows. The combination is also known as a three-finger salute, Three Fingered Death Grip or, more esoterically, as a Vulcan nerve pinch
Bradley originally designed Control-Alt-Escape to trigger a soft reboot, but he found it was too easy to bump the left side of the keyboard and reboot the computer accidentally. He switched the key combination to Control-Alt-Delete, a combination impossible to press with just one hand.
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> He switched the key combination to Control-Alt-Delete, a combination impossible to press with just one hand.
Excuse me? Did they not have Ctrl & Alt on the right side of the spacebar back then, or were they all having AltGr on the right side? I have no problem at all hitting Ctrl Alt Del with one hand, on a US keyboard…
October 5th, 2006 at 12:03 pm