My Ctrl-Alt-Del is acting differently

[Guest]

Ctrl-Alt-Del used to bring up a window with a variety of buttons along the bottom to call up Task Manager, Log Off, Turn Off Computer, Change Passwords, etc. The other day it changed to now just directly bring up the Task Manager. I was trying to troubleshoot a problem with setting up an Ad Hoc network (which wasn't working and kept giving me an error message about the Routing and Remote Services not being available...but that's another story). I was trying to see if I could manually start that service so was going to Task Manager a lot to see if it showed up. I don't know what I did to change it as I was concentrating on the other problem. But I suddenly realized that whenever I hit Ctrl-Alt-Del I was getting the Task Manager direct. At the time it was fine; but I much prefer the more standard format with the various button options.

Does anyone out there know what may have happened? And more importantly, does anyone know how to get it to go back to the "old way" (i.e., the default XP window response to Ctrl-Alt-Del)?

For reference (in case it is important) I am running Windows XP Home edition on a Fujitsu LifeBook P5010 with a 60GB HD, 512MB RAM, and an 800 MHz Intel M-series processor. My HD is about 30% filled.

 

[Steve C. Ray]

Open Task Manager, then double click on the border of the window.

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Ctrl-Alt-Del used to bring up a window with a variety of buttons along the

bottom to call up Task Manager, Log Off, Turn Off Computer, Change
Passwords, etc. The other day it changed to now just directly bring up the
Task Manager. I was trying to troubleshoot a problem with setting up an Ad
Hoc network (which wasn't working and kept giving me an error message about
the Routing and Remote Services not being available...but that's another
story). I was trying to see if I could manually start that service so was
going to Task Manager a lot to see if it showed up. I don't know what I did
to change it as I was concentrating on the other problem. But I suddenly
realized that whenever I hit Ctrl-Alt-Del I was getting the Task Manager
direct. At the time it was fine; but I much prefer the more standard format
with the various button options.

Does anyone out there know what may have happened? And more importantly,

does anyone know how to get it to go back to the "old way" (i.e., the
default XP window response to Ctrl-Alt-Del)?

For reference (in case it is important) I am running Windows XP Home

edition on a Fujitsu LifeBook P5010 with a 60GB HD, 512MB RAM, and an 800
MHz Intel M-series processor. My HD is about 30% filled.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

Start > Control Panel > User Accounts > Change the way user log on
or off . Then, Start > Run > "control userpasswords2" > Check "Users
must enter a user name and password to use this computer."


Bruce Chambers

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Ctrl-Alt-Del used to bring up a window with a variety of buttons

along the bottom to call up Task Manager, Log Off, Turn Off Computer,
Change Passwords, etc. The other day it changed to now just directly
bring up the Task Manager. I was trying to troubleshoot a problem
with setting up an Ad Hoc network (which wasn't working and kept
giving me an error message about the Routing and Remote Services not
being available...but that's another story). I was trying to see if I
could manually start that service so was going to Task Manager a lot
to see if it showed up. I don't know what I did to change it as I was
concentrating on the other problem. But I suddenly realized that
whenever I hit Ctrl-Alt-Del I was getting the Task Manager direct. At
the time it was fine; but I much prefer the more standard format with
the various button options.

Does anyone out there know what may have happened? And more

importantly, does anyone know how to get it to go back to the "old
way" (i.e., the default XP window response to Ctrl-Alt-Del)?

For reference (in case it is important) I am running Windows XP Home

edition on a Fujitsu LifeBook P5010 with a 60GB HD, 512MB RAM, and an
800 MHz Intel M-series processor. My HD is about 30% filled.