Re: Ctrl Alt Delete On Mac Keyboard
Eda Chatagnier
On Macs, the Command key is physically located where our fingers are used to the Alt key location, at least in the US. But, it's the Option key that sends the same keycode. So... you should be able to use Ctrl-Opt-Delete, except I'm not 100% sure that the Mac's delete key corresponds to the Windows one.
Since you want to use your Mac keyboard permanently with a PC (which is exactly what I do, using a USB switch to go between the Mac and PC), you REALLY should download Keytweak for Windows (available at and many other popular download sites), run it and map your Mac keys. Here's a pic of my mapping to get you started, although you can't see a couple others that I have mapped (UI won't scroll), but you'll get the idea.
Long time Mac user here & I know this is an old post, but...What Tom Morris said above is correct on a full-size Mac keyboard. On a TKL (ten keyless) Mac keyboard there is only one delete key. That delete key is really just backspace and fn + delete is actually delete.
So in order to do CTRL + ALT + DEL for Windows on a Mac keyboard you have to do CTRL + Option + FN + Delete. Take into consideration that keyboards that can control multiple devices at one time (Logitech MX Keys, Satechi, etc.) may have the keys mapped differently but may give you the option to remap them.
Not sure if the question was ever answered, but I solved the issue on my magic keyboard. I discovered a second delete button -- not the larger delete button that has the word "delete" (next to the + button), but instead the delete button to the left of the "end" button and directly beneath the fn button. This second delete button has a little x on it as well. I'd never seen it before but just stumbled on it. Control-option-little delete button.
Take away: I hit this particular CTRL-ALT-DELETE combination and it successfully took me to my work windows login page. Hopefully this helps someone who's been struggling with Google or trying different combinations involving the apple command button, etc.
If on an iPad click the options button in the middle of the screen (looks like two squares). Click the keyboard option and Control Alt Delete will appear as options - click on all three and windows should unlock.
Windows is designed so that, unless system security is already compromised in some other way, only the Winlogon process, a trusted system process, can receive notification of the C-A-D key combination
I had the same issue. Every combination failed me. In full disclosure, I am not using a wireless bluetooth keyboard. I am using a usb keyboard with the numeric keypad on the right. After failing with all the combos above, I made sure the num lock was off. I used control (not the command key, just regular control key), option (aka alt with no fn key combo), and the "." from the keypad. No lie, that is what I used. Control + option + .
It's very easy, just download and install this software: will enable you to remap your keyboard buttons.and run the script Iv'e created to replace the backslash button need the enter key with delete key (see picture attached)
One can now use fn-BackSpace to get the windows-like del, like it is done on a mac. Together you get all the predefined function keys on the mac keyboard working on windows (like volume control, brightness control, etc)
Using an old transparent Mac keyboard of an original Bondi Blue iMac which has no Fn key (I like the touch of it!) on a Windows PC running Win 10, I find that the key combination of Control-ALT-Numeric keypad . (numeric keypad decimal or dot key) works and will bring up the task manager.
I have managed to link up my Apple wireless keyboard via bluetooth to my new work machine. However, I have not yet figured out the equivalent key combination on the keyboard for Ctrl-Alt-Del to unlock my screen
Pressing the keys in the exact order then then does not work for me. Pressing it in any order doesn't work either. Or any other combination of keys. So far the only way to log in to windows 7 is by using the virtual keyboard to simulate the ctrl+alt+del key combo.
I'm using a native windows machine (does not have OS X and is not an apple computer). Drivers, such as bootcamp or otherwise, will work once the user is logged in. But once the user logs out or the screensaver login kicks in, the drivers appear to be disabled.
Sorry to say, but I don't think you can do what you want with the wireless keyboard. I run XP and WIN 7 in Parallels on my Mac, and I had to switch back to using Apple's wired keyboard because I was never able to log in using the wireless model.
I'm testing the keyboard native on my Toshiba and I see there is a problem after sleep that the laptop does not recognize the keyboard and there is no way to use a password if required. That is a Driver issue and I will try to find the keyboard driver for windows and repost.
It seems the keyboard only remembers one device at a time and that is the very first Paired computer used when you set up your keyboard. If you set up the keyboard with a Mac, iPad, or another PC - then you must first disconnect (UnPair) the keyboard from the first device and then delete the device from the current computer you are using. The keyboard can be used with many devices temporarily (this is your case), it can only be used with one device as a permanently.
I did notice that after restart, windows takes a few moments to switch on Bluetooth before it's ready to allow the keyboard to be used during "Password Login"- tap a key on the keyboard wait about 5 to 10. That's it.
This solution does not solve the original poster's problem (nor mine). The bluetooth keyboard is paired to only one computer, namely a native windows machine and not a mac running windows with bootcamp. While logged into a windows account, the bluetooth keyboard works wonderfully. It is only when the user is logged out and a login is required that problems occur.
As you stated above, "The keyboard can be used with many devices temporarily (this is your case)." However, this is not our case. Remember what the original poster stated, "I recently moved job and was forced in to a Mac > PC change." We are on native windows computers and are trying to use mac products, such as the wireless bluetooth keyboard.
Yeah this is a temporary workaround that has been known for a while. Thanks for sharing here for people that don't know already. Without the virtual keyboard, the apple wireless keyboard would be completely useless on the PC.
An interesting find just now I tried, when the on screen keyboard is pulled up and I try the power button and volume minus, the Alt key changes to blue is if it were pressed, nothing with the ctrl or del. When I press the power and volume plus, the Windows key lights blue.
Windows 10 (and Windows 8) does not default to CTRL-ALT-DEL even when connected to a domain. As I stated before, I rarely see Windows 10 computers require the 3 key salute to log in as it is no longer the default. We have not used it since Windows 8 here.
Neither. MS defaults the CAD off in Windows 8/10 (even on a domain). Every Windows 10 system we have, and most I have encountered outside of here, do not use CAD to login. I am assuming everyone leaves the default from MS as we all assume that it is fine that way.
I constantly find myself trying to use Ctrl+Backspace to delete a word at a time. This is a common keyboard shortcut in many other programs, but in Articulate it just produces a rectangle. I then hold Ctrl+Shift and tap the left arrow to highlight the word(s) I'm trying to delete and then I tap the backspace or delete button. Is there a better way to do this? Does Articulate have a special shortcut for this? Can I make this custom shortcut for my own computer? I've used Storyline since it was first released and to this day, the Ctrl+Backspace shortcut is so deeply ingrained that I still fall into the trap on a regular basis.
Currently, CTRL + Backspace isn't included in our keyboard shortcuts, but I'm happy to notify our team of this request! We'll begin tracking customer impact to determine next steps and keep you updated in this discussion.
That would be great! Thanks Lauren! I'm sure it's not a widespread complaint and that hardly anyone else has struggled enough to the point of voicing it, but I'm hoping that it's such a simple fix that it can be done even for the few of us that it would really make a difference. I'll keep an eye out.
As long as we're talking about using Ctrl+Backspace to delete words to the left of the cursor, the Ctrl+Delete button combo would also be helpful to add so that we could delete entire words to the right of the cursor too.
Currently, I see no way to disable a global shortcut key. To see the current shortcut key mappings, one navigates to Tools -> Options -> Shortcut Keys. There, next to each item, is an "x", which I would expect to clear out the shortcut key. However, if you clear the value, click OK, and then open Tools -> Options -> Shortcut Keys again, the old shortcut key is back. To me, this seems like a bug.
In addition to wanting that feature to work, it would be nice if there were a global option to disable all shortcut keys. When checking this, the application would remember the existing key mappings, but would no longer honor them. This way, when I'm using a different application which has mapping conflicts, I can temporarily disable global shortcut keys for Evernote, and use the mappings in my other application without conflict.
In v 10.8.4 you can disable individual global shortcuts - they have to be done individually rather than turn all off. Open the Keyboard Shortcuts menu (Ctrl+/ or Help Keyboard shortcuts), hover over the global options one by one, select the ... menu and choose disable.
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