Dumbass mac question

[rico]

What's the mac equivalent of ctrl-alt-del????

Only had one program crash and that was Word-X... typical Microsh*t... (but cheers Paul )

It crashed but i carried on working on other programs for a few hours without problems. I love Macs...

Cheers all. Rico

[HiRich]

Can you give us a clue what ctrl-alt-del is supposed to do?
In OS9:
Apple-Option-Esc: tries to force quit a programme
Apple-Ctrl-Del: Forces a restart (I think - it's two of the three keys and delete, but if I try it, I'll restart my computer, won't I?)

[trooper1212]

In OSX, alt-apple-esc will bring up the force kill program list.

[steviebee]

trooper1212 said:

In OSX, alt-apple-esc will bring up the force kill program list.

This works most of the time but can often get into a loop and doesn't. When this occurs, there's two options;

On older Macs, round the back or on the side of the series one iMacs, there's a tiny hole with a Trinagle in a circle icon. Poke the end of a paperclip in there and the computer will re-start. On newer macs, the hole is now a tiny button (thankfully!)

Failing that - un-plug it!