Keyboards have changed a lot over the past near-century, and one confusing button has always been Pause/Break. What does this ...

Keyboard Pause Break Button: The second part of this button—the 'Break' function—was also quite significant. In older DOS systems and certain programs, pressing Ctrl + Break allowed users to interrupt ...

close up of pause break key on a keyboard - Tomasz Śmigla/Getty Images Ever looked down at your keyboard and wondered what all the buttons on it do? While some are pretty easy to understand — like ...

There's a lot of keys on your keyboard that don't have clear purposes, and that may include the Pause or Break key if you have an old enough keyboard.