Keyboard Ninja: Kill Windows with the Blue Screen of Death in 3 Keystrokes
Have you ever wanted to display off your keyboard ninja
abilities by taking down Windows with just a twosome of keystrokes? All you
have to do is add one registry key, and then you can influence your associates…
or use it to convince persons to swap to Linux.
This isn’t a bug, it’s a “feature” in Windows that is designed to let users
initiate a smash into get rid of for checking reasons. There’s even a entire
Microsoft KB article on the subject.To enable this characteristic, open up regedit and then browse down to one of these keys, depending on your keyboard type:
USB
Keyboard
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\kbdhid\Parameters
PS/2
Keyboard
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\i8042prt\Parameters
First Need Registry trick |
Now
right-click on the right-hand pane and add a new DWORD key named CrashOnCtrlScroll,
giving it a value of 1.
Reboot
your laptop, and once it starts keep a copy you'll be able to trigger the Blue
Screen of Death by mistreatment the subsequent keyboard shortcut:
Hold down
Right Ctrl and hit Scroll Lock twice
Automatic death with blue screen. |
To remove
this “feature” you can just delete the registry key and then restart your
computer again.
Please
note that following this article WILL crash your computer… really isn’t very
useful, but it’s lots of fun.
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