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Bluescreen Screen Saver
Copyright ⌐ 1997-2002 Mark Russinovich
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.
* 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!
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.
Use Bluescreen to amaze your friends and scare your
enemies!
Bluescreen runs on Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000,
Windows XP and Windows 9x.
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!
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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