It happens to everyone at some point. You're doing something on your computer, whether it's an important project, some aimless browsing, or trying to beat your high score on Solitaire, and without ...

David Bradley spent five minutes writing the computer code that has bailed out the world's PC users for decades. The result was one of the most well known key combinations around: Ctrl-Alt-Delete. It ...

I feel stupid for even asking, but I'm stumped. Windows XP SP2, Ctrl-Alt-Delete doesn't bring up the task window any more. I can launch the task manager by right clicking the task bar, and I can ...

The news that Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates now says it was a mistake to long ago force Windows PC users to type "Ctrl-Alt-Delete" at start-up is getting tons of attention because his public mea ...

Whether Microsoft likes it or not, Windows' blue screen messages are iconic-- they're universal signs that something really bad has happened to your software. But who wrote the original ...

Windows is famous for its blue screen of death, but back in the early days of the operating system, that familiar blue hue wasn’t limited to system-crashing errors alone. Windows 3.x featured a ...

The news that Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates now says it was a mistake to long ago force Windows PC users to type "Ctrl-Alt-Delete" at start-up is getting tons of attention because his public mea ...