BSOD on Demand

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Generate a “Blue Screen Of Death” and change its colors, just for fun, or if your bored.

Windows 2000, XP and Vista allow you to generate a BSOD, which halts the system and generates a memory.dmp file. FYI, The Blue Screen of Death first made its debut in Windows 3.1 in 1990. If you would like to try this open your registry and go to this key.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\i8042prt\Parameters\

Then look for or create a Dword registry value named “CrashOnCtrlScroll” and change its value to a 1. When you want

to cause a BSOD, press and hold down the [Ctrl] key on the right side of your keyboard, and then tap the

[ScrollLock] key twice. Now you should see the BSOD. You must restart for this change to take effect. If your

system automatically restarts disable your Automatic Restart Setting. To do that right click My Computer goto

properties, then the Advanced tab, click settings under the Startup and Recovery, and uncheck Automatically

restart.

Now to change the color you must open your C:\WINDOWS\system.ini file and find [386enh], under that text find or

add
MessageBackColor=8
MessageTextColor=9

Here are the colors…
0 = black, 1 = blue, 2 = green, 3 = cyan, 4 = red, 5 = magenta, 6 = yellow/brown, 7 = white, 8 = gray, 9 = bright blue, A = bright green, B = bright cyan, C = bright red, D = bright magenta, E = bright yellow, F = bright white

Only on Win9x(non NT systems).
Save the changes, restart and that should be it.