How To Enable Ctrl-Alt-Del in Windows7

GGarza | Nov 23, 2009 | Comments

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Using Windows7 is very different from Vista, including the sign-in feature to authenticate the user. The ctrl-alt-del feature is missing from the screen so anyone can access the computer. But there is a simple way to put that feature back on line. Follow the next few steps to enable that feature.

Go to the start icon.

Click The Start Icon

The next step is to use the search and type the netplwiz command.

Type NetPlwiz

The User Accounts box opens with two tabs: Users and Advanced.

Select User Accounts

Next select the advanced tab.

Check the box to enable Ctrl-Alt-Del

The secure logon feature will now be enabled when you check “require users to press Ctrl + Alt + Delete.”

This is nominal security to be sure, but if you want it enabled, it is easy to do.

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Jonathan
What exactly does Ctrl-alt-Del do? I've never understood it.

Guest
From what I have heard it causes a power interruption signal in your keyboard that can only be done from the keyboard itself and not remotely, but how do programs like remote desktop and others emulate that signal as there is no way to do it using APIs to my knowledge.

Guest
From what I have heard it causes a power interruption signal in your keyboard that can only be done from the keyboard itself and not remotely, but how do programs like remote desktop and others emulate that signal as there is no way to do it using APIs to my knowledge.

pyro
for those of us who have been using PCs before the advent of windows being the OS know that crtl-alt-del was a warm boot. Windows kept it out of nostalgia as the keyboard shortcut to task manager.