How to press Ctrl/Alt/Del on Macbook with no Delete key? [duplicate]
I'm using Boot Camp to run Windows on my Mac.
Last night I tried to compress the memory of C, then after that finished, it told me to
Press Ctrl + Alt + Del to restart
How do I press these keys?
One of these should work. Option is Alt in Windows. Your Backspace key generates Delete (You might need to press the Fn key to generate Delete)
Control + Option + Delete
Or
Control + Option + Fn + Delete
You should also try:
Ctrl Shift Esc
Here is an alternative. This worked for me in a slightly different and more complicated setup (connecting from a Mac to a Linux server through SSH and then from the Linux server to a Windows Server 2016 server through Remote desktop protocol using the rdesktop
Linux RDP command line client).
In Windows:
- Click Start menu
- Click in the search bar
- Type "powershell"
- In the search results, click "powershell.exe"
-
In the PowerShell shell that opens, type the following:
Powershell -noprofile -nologo -noninteractive -command "(new-object -ComObject shell.application).WindowsSecurity()"
If PowerShell is not available, instead search for "cmd.exe" and in the cmd prompt, type:
explorer shell:::{2559a1f2-21d7-11d4-bdaf-00c04f60b9f0}
Taken from: https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/ie/en-US/9c2ea402-087a-40a0-83de-170b49fdaac5/how-to-change-password-in-rdp-session?forum=winserverTS
Note: if your Mac keyboard layout is not English US, it might be hard to get the {
, }
characters in cmd.exe. In that case try the following:
- Change you keyboard layout on your Mac to English US (use System Preferences)
- In X11's preferences, check "Use system keyboard layout"
- In Windows, make sure to also set the keyboard layout to English US.
To press CTRLALTDelete on a macOS machine, ^⌥delete will not work.
You will need to press ^⌥fndelete to get it to work.
the delete key on macOS is backspace, and fndelete is the real delete.