Introduction
One in the most feared hues from the NT globe is blue. The infamous Blue Screen of Demise (BSOD) will pop up on an NT technique whenever something has gone terribly incorrect. Bluescreen can be a display screen saver that not simply authentically mimics a BSOD,
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On NT four.0 installations it simulates chkdsk of disk drives with problems,
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Bluescreen cycles among various Blue Screens and simulated boots every single fifteen seconds or so. Nearly all of the information proven on Bluescreen's BSOD and method commence screen is obtained from the method configuration - its accuracy will fool even sophisticated NT developers. By way of example, the NT construct amount, processor revision,
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Installation and Use
Note: ahead of you are able to run Bluescreen on Windows 9x, you must copy \winnt\system32\ntoskrnl.exe from a Windows 2000 program to your \Windows directory. Basically copy Sysinternals BLUESCRN.SCR to your \system32 directory if on Windows NT/2K, or \Windows\System directory if on Windows 9x. Appropriate click on within the desktop to carry up the Exhibit settings dialog and after that select the "Screen Saver" tab. Make use of the pull down listing to seek out "Sysinternals Bluescreen" and utilize it as your new display screen saver. Choose the "Settings" button to allow ######## disk exercise, which adds an extra touch of realism!
More Information
You can find out how true Blue Screens are produced, and what the information to the Blue Screen implies in my December 1997 Windows NT Magazine NT Internals column, "Inside the Blue Screen."
Note: Some virus scanners flag the Bluescreen screen saver as being a virus. If this is actually the case along with your virus scanner, you could possibly not be able to use this display screen saver.
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