meddlingBanter

Sometimes I need to reboot my PC at home.  Normally this goes without a hitch, but windows can hang, or at least my box does sometimes.  This happened today while I was away.  On a normal hang one might just hit the reset button and be up and running on minutes.  I didn’t have that option.  I tried CTRL + ALT + ESC to bring up the task manager but this didn’t work.  All I got was an error saying Windows could not bring up the task manager because it was shutting down. 

The solution I found come by hitting CTRL + ALT + END.  This key combo brings up the Security Box one would normally access from the start menu when connected through Remote Desktop.  From here you can force Windows to shutdown or reboot.  Pretty slick.