Special key combinations – Apple Power Macintosh 5400 series User Manual

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Special key combinations

If difficulties with your mouse or computer don’t allow you to use standard
methods of quitting a program or restarting your computer, you can try using
these special key combinations.

To do this...

…press this key combination

Force a program to quit

x

-Option-Esc

Force the computer to restart

x

–Control–Power key

Here are other key combinations you may find useful to use while starting up
your computer:

To do the following at startup…

…press this key combination

Start the computer from a CD-ROM disc

C key

Ignore SCSI ID 0 (zero)

x

-Option-Shift-Delete

Turn off system extensions

Shift key

Start the Extensions Manager

Spacebar

Rebuild the desktop

Option-

x

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