I work from home and I'm using an old HP Compaq nc6000 computer running Windows XP Professional that was provided for me by the company.

To meet new security guidelines, all home computers are set up so that when you restart your computer, you have to press the Ctrl, Alt, Delete keys before you are granted access to the operating system.

Well this morning when I restarted my computer and it prompted me to enter Ctrl Alt, Delete, it didn't work. It's as if the system doesn't recognize that I'm pressing anything. I'm in the process (this afternoon) of getting a separate keyboard to see if it's key/keyboard related and I will post the results of my test. But I was wondering if anyone had any other ideas of why this could have happened. I've restarted the system many times before without a problem.

Also...I can't start in safe mode either because even in safe mode it asks you to press ctrl, alt, delete!