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November Members Helping Members Volume 30—Issue 8

Join us Bill Gates: ‘Control+Alt+Delete’

September 21, Was a Mistake trol+Alt+Delete com- During IBM’s 20th anni-
2013 By Chloe Albanesius - Sep- mand. He said the deci- versary of the IBM PC,
tember 26, 2013
Bradley
sion was actually made
said
Grayslake Submitted by Jack Wilfore by IBM. Conrol+Alt+Delete
Public Library
from 12:00 to
3:00pm for a
discussion on:

Photoshop

Elements

Tips & Tricks Bill Gates recently ad- “We could’ve had a sin- came about when PC
mitted that the familiar gle button, but the guy architects were “trying
Presented by “Control+Alt+Delete” who did the IBM to solve a development
command was a key¬board design didn’t problem.” While testing
Pegasus “mistake.” During a far- want to give us our sin- soft¬ware, it would of-
reaching discussion at gle button,” Gates said. ten freeze, requiring a
Photography Har¬vard on Sept. 21, “It was a mistake.” reboot. As a result,
Gates was questioned That guy, as GeekWire Bradley created a
about why the architects pointed out, is David shortcut, which was
Inside this issue: of the PC decided to go Bradley, who designed Control+Alt+Delete.
Robins with the Con- the original IBM PC.

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Basic 4 Angus MacTavish on Windows 8 - Part Two
Computer
Skills
L.C.A.C.E 5
Members I am still trying to find ways to make Windows 8 work faster. Do you have
Contribute icons on your taskbar? If you do, there is a way to make them launch very
quickly. My taskbar:
Historian 6
Report

Birthdays and 7 As you can see, going from left to right, Internet Explorer is the first icon. If I
Recipe
want to launch Internet Explorer quickly, I hit the Windows key and the
numeral 1, and voilà, I have launched it. To open Excel, you hit the Windows
Prize List 10
key and numeral 2. I used the snipping tool to copy the taskbar by hitting

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