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.
