Most Useless Key

[Adagio]

IhatethespacebarsoI'vetakenitoutofmykeyboard





What's the use of the scroll lock and pause/break keys anyway? I've never found a way to actually use them... And I really hate when people press the num lock key, and I have to use the computer 2 min later How can someone actually live without those number keys at the right?

[BustaMike]

How can someone actually live without those number keys at the right?

Some people use them instead of the arrow keys because they're better (having diagonals and all).

I use scroll lock very rarely but I do use it. After thinking about this some more, I'm having trouble thinking of one instance where I have ever used the pause/break key. I couldn't even tell you what it does. Can anyone give me a specific time when they have used this key and what it did?

[Adagio]

Originally posted by BustaMike
Some people use them instead of the arrow keys because they're better (having diagonals and all).

I know a person who ALWAYS clicks the Num lock button, though I have never seen him actually use the numbers as arrow keys instead, so it makes no difference to him... When I ask him why he does that, he just answers, he hates those number buttons... but what's the difference when he doesn't use the arrows anyway

[Skanky Burns]

With numlock off, there is no light on the keyboard.
I used to do that, back in the dos days when joysticks were the main form of input.

Of course, nowadays I just buy keyboards that don't have a numlock light.

[Urban Ranger]

It's your fault

[Sikander]

Crap, I thought this was going to be a musical thread. My least favorite key (musically) is B flatulent.

[Kuciwalker]

Skanky: the function keys are VITAL! So many games I know use them.

[Q Classic]

the Any key. i can't find it.

[Paul Hanson]

How come no-one's considered ¬?

What a useless key! That's the first time I've ever used it, and I can't forsee a situation where I'll need to use it again.

[JohnT]

I use all of them at one time or another, though I express my greatest frustration with the damn insert key.

[Cruddy]

Originally posted by Skanky Burns
Scroll Lock is useless - I don't even know what it could be used for.

Sorry Skanky, I disagree. Scroll lock does at least light up an LED on on the keyboard, which is more than Pause/Break does. It makes rolling a joing slightly easier when the light bulb has blown late at night.

Oldies like me tend to Ctrl-Z rather than Break anyway. 99% of the time it has no effect but their are a few retar... er, "old fashioned" programmers still coding.

[Chemical Ollie]

W (according to the old *hitehouse administration)

[Maniac]

Pause/Break works in EU2. That's the only use I know for it though.

[Adagio]

Originally posted by Cruddy
Oldies like me tend to Ctrl-Z rather than Break anyway. 99% of the time it has no effect but their are a few retar... er, "old fashioned" programmers still coding.

What had ctrl-Z to do with Break? I use ctrl-Z all the time, but I have yet to find the break key do anything at all... and certainly not what ctrl-Z should do...

[St Leo]

Originally posted by Paul Hanson
How come no-one's considered ¬?

It's not part of the standard North American keyboard.