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- Bluescreen Screen Saver
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- Copyright ⌐ 1997-2002 Mark Russinovich
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- Last Updated August 19, 2002 V3.0
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- Introduction One of the most feared colors in the NT world is blue.
- The infamous Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) will pop up
- on an NT system whenever something has gone terribly
- wrong. Bluescreen is a screen saver that not only
- authentically mimics a BSOD, but will simulate startup
- screens seen during a system boot.
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- * On NT 4.0 installations it simulates chkdsk of
- disk drives with errors!
- * On Win2K and Windows 9x it presents the Win2K
- startup splash screen, complete with rotating
- progress band and progress control updates!
- * On Windows XP it presents the XP
- startup splash screen with progress bar!
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- Bluescreen cycles between different Blue Screens and
- simulated boots every 15 seconds or so. Virtually all
- the information shown on Bluescreen's BSOD and system
- start screen is obtained from your system
- configuration - its accuracy will fool even advanced
- NT developers. For example, the NT build number,
- processor revision, loaded drivers and addresses, disk
- drive characteristics, and memory size are all taken
- from the system Bluescreen is running on.
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- Use Bluescreen to amaze your friends and scare your
- enemies!
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- Bluescreen runs on Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000,
- Windows XP and Windows 9x.
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- Installation Simply copy SYSINTERNALS BLUESCRN.SCR to your
- and Use <winnt>\system32 directory. Right click on the desktop
- to bring up the Display settings dialog and then
- select the "Screen Saver" tab. Use the pull down list
- to find "SysInternals Bluescreen" and apply it as your
- new screen saver. Select the "Settings" button to
- enable fake disk activity, which adds an extra touch
- of realism!
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- More You can find out how real Blue Screen's are generated,
- Information and what the information on the Blue Screen means in
- my December 1997 Windows NT Magazine NT Internal's
- column, "Inside the Blue Screen".
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