Manually crash windows!

[kenboyles72]

for those of you that want to know or for those that got nothing better to do than to give windows a hard time. check this out.(works with XP)

Windows-XP has a "feature" (???) with which it is possible to manually crash a system by simply holding the right CTRL key and pressing the "Scroll Lock" key twice. This feature can be turned on by the following steps:

1. Start regedit.
2. Navigate to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\i8042prt\Parameters
3. Create a new DWORD value and name it CrashOnCtrlScroll
4. Right-click on this newly created value and click on Modify
5. Enter 1 in the Value data field and click on OK.
6. Close regedit and reboot your system.
7. Now you can blue screen (crash) your system by holding the right CTRL key and pressing "Scroll Lock" twice.

Note:

Your system may reboot or show a blue screen whenever this crash is initiated. If your system reboots after initiating the crash, and you want to see the blue screen, follow these steps:

1. Go to Control Panel > System
2. Click on the Advanced tab
3. Under Startup and Recovery, click the Settings button.
4. Under System failure, uncheck the option Automatically restart.

Happy crashing...

[no1_vern]

ACK!! I see to many blue screens as it is!!

[cryptoguy]

I'm saving the directions on how to do this... *Clears throat* Can you set it to crash on pressing the space bar?

[Gait_Keeper]

Hmm........my sister just got a dell for X-mas

[elmers]

So thats what the scroll button does?!?!?

[vikeor]

lol... gonna have fun at the next lan party

[voogru]

I never get bluescreens in XP, maybe this will help.

[cryptoguy]

Quote:

Originally Posted by voogru

I never get bluescreens in XP...

Yah, you don't know what you're missing man! Experiance of a lifetime!!!

[Blazer06]

There is also a way to change the blue screen to a mauve screen or whatever color you desire. I'll see if I can dig up the hack.


Blaze

[Kuasimodem]

Speaking of Blue Screens

^^^Ever so much fun^^^