Re: Possible to disable Ctrl-Alt-Del or NumLock keys?

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From: Julian
Date: Mon, 08 Aug 1994 00:10

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In <3220ud$qq3@cpcug.org>, kbennett@cpcug.org (Keith Bennett) writes:
>I am working on a turnkey system using OS/2 as the underlying operating
>system.  The programs in the application are PM programs.
>
>Is there any way to trap the Ctrl-Alt-Del key sequence?  This is very
>important as many of the users are coming from DOS and don't understand
>that it's not OK to reboot this way.
>
Ctrl-Alt-Del in OS/2 V2.1> takes you through shutdown and closes files. 
It is not as thorough as shutdown, i.e. you won't be prompted to save 
the big document you were working on, but it won't mess up your hpfs 
file structurce and force you to reboot from the system disk and chkdsk.

The big red switch power off is what will really kill you.  When I get 
hung up, the only time I despair is when the keyboard dies.  I've had no
problems recovering from Ctrl-Alt-Del.



Julian E. Brown
dominic@juliand.com

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