Is this a windows joke I’m too linux to understand?
Yes if you hold “shift” for 5 seconds, it will attempt to turn on sticky keys, which makes individual key strokes act like if you were holding them down. Individually pressing ctrl, alt, del with sticky keys is like pressing ctrl+alt+del
Correction because I’m annoying: it’s when you press shift 5 times in a row. It would be terrible if just holding it down for 5 seconds activated it, haha
Ha ha, it’s still so fucking stupid though.
Hey let’s activate hard disk defragmentation if you type 1 2 3 and 4 !!
Tell me OP is 14 years old without telling me OP is 14 years old.
I don’t know that there’s a point to them, so much as I just lose all motivation and fall straight to sleep after finishing my porn sessions.
It has no purpose other than fucking with you and there’s no way to turn it off
it’s for ppl that can’t hold it down
It’s an accessibly feature for those who can’t hold down shift and the key they want to have in uppercase (or the variant, like the exclamation point).
It’s useful for less computer savvy people or those with muscular issues (and for Tom, who fucking insists using his tongue to type is more hygienic (it’s decidedly not))
Fun fact: A common way to get access to SYSTEM (higher than admin) privileges on Windows is the sethc exploit, where you replace sethc (the program that shows the sticky keys dialog) with command prompt, and it gets started as SYSTEM, the only thing needed is write access to System32, which can either be from an admin account or by editing the file system externally. This also allows opening a command prompt on the login screen, allowing some cursed things, like if you start explorer.exe on the login screen it combines the desktop and login screen.
I did this in college with windows 7. I don’t think it works on 10, but could be mistaken.
I helped an elderly man get back into his pc doing a variation of this.
Changed the accessibility magnifier function to comman prompt. Was able to log in and create another user account after he lost access to a password.
So not sure about that one specifically bit a variation worked on 10.
I used to do this to make a hidden account on my computer to bypass my parents’ screen time restrictions
