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thanks for watching tech quickie click the subscribe button and enable notifications with the bell icon so you won't miss any future videos alright so it's around 2:30 p.m. you're stuck at work and you're desperate to get away for a coffee because your boss is breathing down your neck for I don't know a line graph or something but suddenly you glance down at your keyboard and you get an idea what would happen if I actually hit that key so you spring into action mashing your index finger down on it and as it bottoms out your boss freezes and a delightful coffee appears right in front of you pause break am i right well no no I'm not right so what is the break button actually therefore then I mean unlike the scroll lock key which you can learn more about up here it doesn't even toggle that little wide on your keyboard well the origins of the break key actually go all the way back to the 1800s when zesty memes were sent in via Telegraph rather than the internet back then if two people were communicating via teleprinter one person could press break to break the circuit which effectively interrupted the sender and let them know that the other end needed to transmit something this usually happened when one new source that was sharing a telegraph line with others has some breaking news to report but even though teleprinters have long been obsolete the break he's stuck around on computer keyboards as a means to stop or terminate a running program now this functionality was much more common back before graphical operating systems were a thing but for fun you can still use control plus break to terminate a program in Doss or in other text-only environments but on a more practical note you might also still see a system administrator using the break key if a PC is connected to a mainframe and they have to interrupt the boot process to recover a password but that doesn't have much applicability to you folks a home does it so a far more common use for you would be to pause that flow of text you might see on your own computer at boot time like if you would like to see BIOS messages that might help you understand or troubleshoot any issues you're having now it doesn't work on every PC but gives a shot the next time you your system if you're curious the pause button will also stop any huge avalanche of text scrolling down your screen if you're using command prompt and even if you can't be bothered to care about anything that has to do with old-school command line computing there are still two modern applications for pause brake holding down the windows key and pressing pause brake will bring a cure system property screen and some games will let you press pause to pause your game play makes sense right it does make me wonder why that isn't the standard but even if your favorite game doesn't use the pause key for this purpose you can always use hotkeys software to make this extraneous button do whatever you'd like beating games or in Adobe Premiere just whatever you program it to do don't expect it to bring a halt to those incessant work messages about how you need to find a way to make episode is about obscure keyboard buttons more compelling maybe we should've thrown to some more explosions and speaking of explosions would you like your Internet experience to be more explosive and exciting well then check out tole better VPN which lets you tell to 20 different countries allowing you to browse the Internet and use online services as if you're in a different country they have easy-to-use apps for iOS Android PC and Mac and a Chrome extension just choose a country in the app turn tunnel bear on and watch as your bear totals your internet connection to your new location when you turn to a little bear on 2 things happen your connection gets encrypted with AES 256-bit encryption and your public IP address gets switched so you can show up as if you were in a different country telo bear lets you bypass all the annoying details that typically come with using a VPN for personal use there's no need to mess around with port configurations DNS or any other router settings total Barre handles all that for you in the background they also have a top rated privacy policy and do not log user activity right now you can try out tunnel bearer VPN with 500 megabytes of free data with no credit card required and if you choose to get a year of unlimited data you can save 10% by going to toll bear comm / - alright thanks for watching guys like dislike check out our other channels up here comment with video suggestions and don't forget to subscribe and click the bell icon so you won't miss any of our videos