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nine_k a day ago

Alter the control, and delete!

In modern Windows, the three-key salute is a way to lock your session securely. Maybe that's what they mean: locking it up?

forgetfulness a day ago | parent [-]

It brings up the Task Manager, that lets you forcibly stop processes, and this is a way for the (NY State) Government to take control of your printer, the analogy isn't bad.

nine_k 20 hours ago | parent [-]

This is what Shift+Ctrl+Esc does.

forgetfulness 19 hours ago | parent [-]

I'm behind the times! That's what it used to be until Windows XP, the last Windows version I used on a daily basis was Windows 2000 up to 2005.

AnssiH 4 hours ago | parent [-]

On Windows XP this depended on whether you had joined a domain. On joined systems you got the security screen (same as previous Windows NT/2000), on other systems the task manager (same as Windows 9x).