Delete key

The Remove button ( briefly Delete key English: Del button for " Delete" ) often localized on the standard PC keyboard, the arrow keys, clears when editing text the character at the current cursor position and moves all following characters one position per keystroke to the left ( also " forward deletion "), and other than the default delete button which deletes the character left of the cursor (also called " backward deletion ").

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The Delete key as on Swiss keyboards with "Delete " or " Del " ( delete ) labeled on English keyboards. Confusingly, was temporarily labeled in English Apple computers and notebooks, the Back-erase button with " Del ", and only the traditional position on the upper right corner of the keypad pointed to the typical for those back erase function.

The ASCII control character value for the Delete key is 0x7F ( 0127).

Many operating systems and programs interpret the Delete key as a general command for deleting data.

The key combination Ctrl Alt Del ( " death grip " ) dissolves in many operating systems provide an important system command:

  • Microsoft Windows 7 and Vista, so you open a dialog in which you, among other things can lock the computer, log off, switch users, or start the Task Manager.
  • On Microsoft Windows NT, 2000 and XP you open the Task Manager so
  • Under Microsoft Windows 95, 98 and ME you get a dialog to terminate applications ( pressing restarts the computer )
  • Under Unix, MS -DOS and the Windows versions 1.x, 2.x and 3.x you start the computer ("Software Reset", "warm start" ).
  • Under OS / 2 with Ctrl Alt Del a so-called " shutdown " will be done, the computer shuts down.
  • Under most Unix-like operating systems, graphical user interfaces for the computer shutdown dialog opens. Generally there are a whole lot of " monkey bars ", see Magic SysRq key.
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