Most Useless Key

[reds4ever]

Originally posted by Andrew1999
I'm voting for the bottom half of Print Screen/SysRq. I've never been able to find out what SysRq stands for, what it's supposed to do, or how it might be persuaded to do it.

System request, its a legacy from the bad 'ole days

[geeslaka]

elijah, you have something configured wrong. My brother and I both set the windows key to be detected as a modifier key named super.

Prt Scr, Scroll Lock, and Pause/Break are the least used keys for me.

[Provost Harrison]

Now I have used PrtScr...very useful for the desktop threads

[BustaMike]

For those of you that voted for the tilde key... this thing ~... have none of you ever played a first person shooter? That key opens the console in nearly all FPS games these day.

[Kuciwalker]

Pause/Break because I have yet to find a situation in which it actually does something.

Insert is actually malicious. It's really easy to hit it when hitting delete (and sometimes backspace), and then you screw up what you were typing.

I didn't vote for "|", but I HATE it on those keyboards where it's next to the right shift. Too easy to hit instead of the shift. DIE DIE DIE!

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by BustaMike
Gotta be the context menu key. I have NEVER used that button, ever.

you mean alt? You've NEVER ctrl-alt-deleted, or alt-tabbed? EVER?

heathen

[Provost Harrison]

Originally posted by BustaMike
For those of you that voted for the tilde key... this thing ~... have none of you ever played a first person shooter? That key opens the console in nearly all FPS games these day.

You're right, I never thought about that...

[Dinner]

I can't remember ever using the insert key. I also don't use the winbows key.

[mrmitchell]

The only key I've never used is Scroll Lock. I know uses for every other key, but Scroll Lock is an elusive beast whose purpose remains unknown.

[Kuciwalker]

I didn't vote for any of the character keys (number pad, tilda, etc) because those are actually used when writing something. I hate having to go the the insert symbol thingy.

[Jon Shafer]

Originally posted by monolith94
I voted for insert because not only is it useless 99% of the time, it often eats up text, and is totally aggravating. It's actually COUNTER-PRODUCTIVE.

Exactly.

That and Scroll Lock gets my vote.

[reds4ever]

Originally posted by BustaMike
For those of you that voted for the tilde key... this thing ~... have none of you ever played a first person shooter? That key opens the console in nearly all FPS games these day.

correct

[mrmitchell]

Insert, believe it or not, is useful a few times. The most prominent example is I turn it on while I'm playing The Corporate Machine so I can quickly edit my price.

(Scroll Lock, however, has no purpose. It just takes up plastic and electricity.)

[Ecthy]

scroll lock and print screen are soooo MS-DOS

[mrmitchell]

Print screen is pretty useful. I can take screenies without having to need any third party program--hell yeah!