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Control-Alt-Delete (for logging in to a Windows domain).

Today at work, my Mac (with WinXP/BootCamp) was set up to log into the company's domain because it was impossible to connect via OS X no matter what we tried. Anyway, I'm now prompted for a Control-Alt-Delete every time I boot into Windows. I first did it with a Windows USB keyboard, but at home I don't have access to one of those. I've read so many forum post of people giving all sorts of key combinations that are supposedly the Mac's way of typing Control-Alt-Delete, but none work. What's the deal?

MacBook Pro 1.83 GHz, Mac OS X (10.4.8), 2 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM

Posted on Dec 12, 2006 3:52 AM

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Dec 15, 2006 8:57 PM in response to DorianJ

Dorian,

It sounds like the keyboard support is not working properly. I was working on a similar setup last weekend, and until I got the keyboard drivers working properly, I had to use the USB keyboard.

1)Have you tried to reinstall the Mac Drivers CD?
2)Try going into Device Manager(through System in the control panel), find the keyboard entries under Human Interface Device. Double click on each and in the properties, uninstall the driver. Restart the computer(have a USB keyboard handy). Log in and allow windows to reditect the drivers. Make sure you have admin rights.
3)Go back to device manager, and double click on each item in Human Interface Device. Click the update driver button. Tell it that you do not want it to search, that you will choose the driver your self. You should be given a list of drivers that are compatible. If you notice an apple driver, select it and hit ok.

Dec 17, 2006 8:25 PM in response to danny'ss

Interesting idea, othen then he needs to be able to log in to change the registry.

Dorian, there might be a way go get in to change that setting suggested above, but it might affect your ability to log in to your work domain.
Do you have either a local admin account you could log in with? If not, then there is a remot chance that the admin account does not have a password.
Restart the computer, pressing f8 to get into the boot options. Select on of the safe mode options. That should bypass the control-alt-delete, but you will need an admin account to log in.

Jan 17, 2007 9:18 AM in response to DorianJ

For anyone that's interested, it will be necessary to remap one of the existing keys to act as a DELETE key. I downloaded some software from microsoft that included an app called RemapKey.exe that is supposed to effortlessly help you remap your MBP keyboard via a GUI.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9d467a69-57ff-4ae7-96ee -b18c4790cffd&displaylang=en

The GUI looks nice, but it does not even closely resemble the MBP keyboard so there's absolutely no way of telling which MBP keys you're mapping the Window's keys to! I tried three different times before realizing that control-alt-delete is not worth the hassle so I disabled it with the help of these instruction.

http://www.visualwin.com/Disable-C-A-D/

Now Windows boots up and prompts with the login screen. No more control-alt-delete. I wish I could say no more windows!

Control-Alt-Delete (for logging in to a Windows domain).

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