Activate Your Life (Keyboard) : How To Enable Virtual PC Ctrl Alt Del

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Q. I can't get Ctrl-Alt-Del to work!
A. Ctrl-Alt-Del is a special key combination for Windows, and no application is allowed to intercept it (this is why it is used for the logon screen - if someone wrote a trojan that looked like the logon dialogue then when you pressed Ctrl-Alt-Del to logon it would become immediately apparent). To get around this, you must press a different key combination which gets interpreted to Ctrl-Alt-Del inside the VM. For VMware, it is Ctrl-Alt-Ins. For Virtual PC it is [Host Key]-Del (the host key is Right-Alt by default).

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