Ctrl-alt-delete only works if Windows is still responding. Once Windows crashes, it's too late.

My older Dell has a reset button and I do not see any advantage to pushing it. I guess it saves one button push. What it does is remove power and then put it back on, the equivalent of powering down and then powering back up.

If I understand correctly, you are saying that you can not recover from a freeze by using Clt+Alt+Del. And, I believe, it is my understanding that no one else can either.

Once a computer freezes that is it.

Clt+Alt+Del allows a person a quick maneuver before disaster--that is, if you are experiencing flaky computer performance, you can begin shutting down individual programs one at a time. And hopefully, the quickness of this maneuver allows you the opportunity to avoid the freeze.

Clt+Alt+Del is not a recovery process.

I could be wrong about this, but Clt+Alt+Del has never recovered computer operation for me.

When it freeszes (sp) it is done, turn it off and start over!

Ok, I guess what I really meant was RESET. I didnt realize when it went that far, powering down was the only option.

THANKS, everyone!

If a progrma is locked up and you pres ALT-CTRL-DEL you'll get a box and select the non responding program and end the task. If the entire PC / Operating system locks up then you have no alternative but to reset / power down. How ever it's nothing to overly worry about. As long as when you power down nothing active is going on such as a data in transit. Example if you launch a program and loose power then Data residing In physical memory will go into cyber land and lost forever. A long as the System is locked up tight nothing is in transit so nothing terrible will happen through a reboot.
If windows is fuctioning you would need to ALT-CTRL-DEl twice to get the system to shut down

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