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Manually crash Windows XP

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edited March 2004 in Science & Tech
Is your system too stable? Is your system annoyingly reliable? If you answered yes to both then this little trick may float your boat, or crash your ship, which ever way you look at it.

[blockquote]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. (If you are unfamiliar with regedit, please refer to this FAQ)
2. Navigate to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\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.
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[link=http://www.tweakxp.com/display.aspx?id=2066]More Info[/link]

Comments

  • KingFishKingFish
    gets some evil ideas with this one. Thanks SM-Bot!
    edited March 2004
    gets some evil ideas with this one. Thanks SM-Bot!
  • EyesOnlyEyesOnly
    feels like trying this sometime, for the cause. :D
     Sweden New
    edited March 2004
    feels like trying this sometime, for the cause. :D
  • leishi85leishi85 Grand Rapids, MI Icrontian
    edited March 2004
    already done this on school computers!!!
  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited March 2004
    You can get the same result by installing WinME... :rolleyes2
  • MJOMJO Denmark New
    edited March 2004
    M$ is really trying to satify the "Crash'A'Holic" with this trick.

    I have to try this trick on my dad's computer.
    /me laughs in an extremely sinister way :rarr:
  • DexterDexter Vancouver, BC Canada
    edited March 2004
    Also applies to Windows 2000. Used to simulate crashes to force memory dumps.

    http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/2000/server/scriptguide/en-us/sas_cpm_klll.mspx

    Can have many malevolent uses as well ;)

    Dexter...
  • RWBRWB Icrontian
    edited March 2004
    I wander if you can set it up to do it remotely... to get back at evil brothers. :D
  • robbyrobby Olympia, WA New
    edited March 2004
    profdlp wrote:
    You can get the same result by installing WinME... :rolleyes2
    ;D;D;D;D
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