It was the keyboard.......

I've been posting on here for a couple of days about
Ctrl+Alt+Del not bringing up the task manager. Well,
come to find out, it's the keyboard. The individual keys
CTRL, ALT, DEL work, but, for some reason, the
combination doesn't work. I realized yesterday that if I
press Ctrl+Alt+Del and then release the Ctrl key, the
task manager pops up. Weird, huh? I switched out the
keyboard with an old one that I have and ta-da! It works
now. I was also having a couple of other problems on the
desktop and switching the keyboard fixed those too.

eMachines offered to send me a new keyboard since I just
bought the computer a few weeks ago. yay!

Good catch. Congratulations!

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Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)

"tracy" wrote in message
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I've been posting on here for a couple of days about
Ctrl+Alt+Del not bringing up the task manager. Well,
come to find out, it's the keyboard. The individual keys
CTRL, ALT, DEL work, but, for some reason, the
combination doesn't work. I realized yesterday that if I
press Ctrl+Alt+Del and then release the Ctrl key, the
task manager pops up. Weird, huh? I switched out the
keyboard with an old one that I have and ta-da! It works
now. I was also having a couple of other problems on the
desktop and switching the keyboard fixed those too.

eMachines offered to send me a new keyboard since I just
bought the computer a few weeks ago. yay!