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A very wise man once told me that while the 'any' key literally means any key on the keyboard, that there's more to the story than meets the eye.
The safest 'any' key to press is actually the space bar key. Let me explain. When you are prompted by a program to press any key to continue, there are other programs often running at the same time. If you press the 'enter' key for example, you may in fact be responding to a question from a second program if that second program poses the question at that precise moment. Since 'enter' is a substitute for clicking 'OK' in most cases, you may inadvertently be agreeing to the second program doing what it wants to when all you really wanted to do was hit any key to satisfy the needs of the program you were originally working with.
Now, while this occurrence is rare, it always tends to happen at exactly the wrong moment. The problem with answering with 'enter' is that you can't change your mind. What's done is done and the program interprets 'enter' as 'do it' - 'yes'.
Space on the other hand means nothing. It enters a space character in a line of text. No program (except the one asking you to press the 'any' key, will interpret a space bar press as a 'yes'.
So the space bar is the safest key to press to satisfy the current program, while essentially ignoring any other program that might raise its ugly head during the transaction.
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Authentication key in wrath of the lich king?
The "anykey."
When you turn on your computer it just goes to the HP screen then goes black What is wrong?
That means there is a problem with the boot procces or a harware device is not working properly. Insert the recovery disk that cam with it and repeatly press F12 as soon as you power on the machine. Select the CD/DVD drive and when propted press anykey to boot from cd. Then follow the prompts. If this does not work then it mite be hardware issures
How do you restore a dell XPS 200 using windows XP media center version 2005 to factory settings I have a operating system disc that is called a reinstallation DVD from dell?
Note when you perform this all data will be lost and should be backed up before performing this operation!!! Also make sure you have your dell driver CD or DVD if not go to dell.com and click home, desktop or laptop, support, then drivers, enter the service code and download all ur drivers and burn them to a DVD or CD of you do not do this first you will not be able to access the internet after the operation is complete. First insert the reinstallation DVD and restart the computer. As soon as the BIOS(the first face that is loaded. Repeataly press the F12 Key during the fase. Select the DVD drive. You will then see press anykey to start from CD or DVD. Press anykey except ESC. After that it will start to copy files. When the blue screen stops loading select the option to install windows. When the partition table is displayed press the option to delete the partition. When they are deleted and all it shows is unalocated space press enter and follow the propts after some formatting is done the system will restart and ask to start from CD again. Do not push anything it will start on its on and then follow the prompts. After the fresh install is finished and u can view the desktop insert the Drivers CD and install every single driver. Next thing you should do it connect to the internet and right away download and install a Antivirus program. I suggest using Avast its 100% free for home edition.
