Scroll Lock

[squarebear]

What is the point of the scroll lock key?
What does it do?

[cazzz1975]

stops the screen from scrolling which can be useful if you are viewing large documents or when using DOS

[ChuckFickens]

it's a throw back to early days on computers, it main purpose is to either stop text scrolling on the screen, or modify the way the arrow keys act.

Try the arrow key one for yourself, open an excel spreadsheet and you can move about the individual cells using the arrow keys, now turn on scroll lock and see what the arrow keys do.

But by and large it is a redundant key now and not used for anything

(oh and if you feel like playing silly ******* you can enable a registry setting in windows called CrashOnCtrlScroll and then if you hold down CTRL and double hit the scroll lock key it will crash the system, I assume this is in there for debugging reasons :))

[squarebear]

Cheers guys.

The CrashOnCtrlScroll sounds about right for Micro$oft.

[ACtheTROLL]

chuck ... that's sick ... I thought the kwy to crash windows was the on button

[sandmaster]

It is used in some programs. In Excell for instance with Scroll Lock on the same cell is highlighted as you scroll; when switched off the scroll highlighting moves from cell to cell.