3 Keystrokes to Crash XP

[Jonbo298]

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.

Note:

Your system may reboot or show a blue screen whenever this crash is initiated. If your system reboots after initiating the crash, and you want to see the blue screen, follow these steps:

1. Go to Control Panel > System
2. Click on the Advanced tab
3. Under Startup and Recovery, click the Settings button.
4. Under System failure, uncheck the option Automatically restart.

Happy crashing...

http://www.tweakxp.com/display.aspx?id=2066

All I have to say is that this is an ingenious find. I would do it to my computer right now, but I'll wait until later when I feel like trying it out. But it boggles me why MS included this but who knows...

[Happydude]

it's MS...go figure

[Dark Samurai]

Is this helpful in some way?

It'd be cool if it clears everything you have on the computer.

[GiMpY-wAnNaBe]

...the next build of windows will be so advanced that it will activate this feature AND execute it without any prompting to do so

[bobcat]

I will try this.....on my bosses pc

[thatmariolover]

Originally Posted by GiMpY-wAnNaBe

...the next build of windows will be so advanced that it will activate this feature AND execute it without any prompting to do so

Most PC's do it now anyway. :-D BUY A MAC!

[DimHalo]

how does this feature help? is it just another "way" of reformatting?

[thatmariolover]

Originally Posted by jeepnut's slave

how does this feature help? is it just another "way" of reformatting?

No.. It's just cool when you want to make the blue screen of death... Like for freaking your parents out. Or any other of a hundred reasons.

[GameMaster]

I've heard murmurs in the east and whispers in the west of a top secret Windows operating system. Codename: Longhorn.

This conversation never existed.

[Jason1]

Originally Posted by thatmariolover

Most PC's do it now anyway. :-D BUY A MAC!

Yea, buy a MAC if you want to completley abandon PC games forever.

[MuGen]

Originally Posted by Jason1

Yea, buy a MAC if you want to completley abandon PC games forever.

actually MacSoft is speeding up it's progress. It has UT2003, UT2004, all of the Strategy games like Age of _____ <~~insert one of the names.

MacSoft is quickly expanding and making Windows platform games available on the Mac.

And PC means Personal Computer....and ALL games whether Mac or Windows is a PC Game... lol

the only difference is the platform or operating system.

Windows or Mac OS

I never understood why people said, "Mac vs. PC"

lol

[thatmariolover]

Originally Posted by ProjectEden

I never understood why people said, "Mac vs. PC"

Who knows why? It's just been said since the mid 1980's and has stuck until now.