Re: FN-FORUM: OT: Windows, er, Fun (I suppose)

date posted 27th February 2004 18:06

Julian Templeman wrote:
> There's an option in Windows that you can enable -- presumably via
> some registry hacking -- that allows you to manually initiate a blue
> screen. If it's enabled, you hold down the right Ctrl key, press
> Scroll Lock twice... and you get a MANUALLY_INITIATED_CRASH (0xE2)
> blue-screen.
>
> The mind boggles trying to imagine a reason why we might possibly ever
> want this... (although it could be kind of neat to initiate from code
> every once in a while :-)

You don't get enough day to day? The mind boggles... ;-)

Matt