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And I'd like to buy you a coffee someday for teaching me about the Ctrl+Shift+ESC shortcut.

Happy to help.

If anyone's going to DEFCON this year, I'll be hanging around the Crypto & Privacy Village a lot, so feel free to say hi.

I remember running into a few viruses floating around that (among other wonderful behaviors) disabled the ctrl+alt+del shortcut to try to prevent you from getting to the task manager. Often ctrl+shift+esc still worked, though.

This, seriously, just changed my life.

Make that two coffees!

At least three.

Or other beverages, really!

Holy shit; I did not know that. Thank you!

Wasn’t the Windows Start menu shortcut Ctrl+ESC?

Had no idea there was another shortcut other than the Windows key, confirmed it works on Windows 10.

Yes, ctrl-esc was the original shortcut since 3.x, and when there was no Win key yet