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Authored by: CaptCosmic on Jun 28, '02 07:57:40PM

If I want to shutdown now, I simply press the power button, then press enter to select Shutdown on the window that pops up (it's the default). Seems quite a bit easier than remembering which of the modifier keys I should be holding down.



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Authored by: DavidRavenMoon on Jun 29, '02 01:02:49PM

You can also press Control-Eject to bring up the shutdown (restart, sleep, etc.) dialog box. Handy if you keep your tower under you desk and don't feel like bending to press the power button.

The keys that work with the Shutdown dialog are: Enter - Shutdown, S - Sleep, R - Restart, ESC - Cancel. No Command key needed with those, same as with OS 9.

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Authored by: ebow on Jul 01, '02 03:35:30PM

Macs like the iMac (CRT model, at least) don't give you that dialog box when you push the "power" key -- the computer goes to sleep immediately instead. Therefore, these key combos can be quite handy on such machines.



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