Introduction
One with the most feared hues inside the NT planet is blue. The infamous Blue Display screen of Demise (BSOD) will pop up on an NT program anytime something has gone terribly wrong. Bluescreen can be a screen saver that not only authentically mimics a BSOD, but will simulate startup screens witnessed throughout a system boot.
On NT four.0 installations it simulates chkdsk of disk drives with mistakes!On Win2K and Windows 9x it presents the Win2K startup splash display,
Microsoft Office 2007 Pro, comprehensive with rotating progress band and progress handle updates!On Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 it presents the XP/Server 2003 startup splash display with progress bar!
Bluescreen cycles between distinct Blue Screens and simulated boots each fifteen seconds or so. Virtually all the information demonstrated on Bluescreen's BSOD and technique start display screen is obtained from the technique configuration - its accuracy will fool even sophisticated NT developers. As an example, the NT create amount, processor revision, loaded drivers and addresses,
Microsoft Office 2007 Key, disk drive attributes,
Office Professional Plus 2007, and memory size are all taken from your system Bluescreen is managing on.
Use Bluescreen to amaze your friends and scare your enemies!
Installation and Use
Note: just before you can run Bluescreen on Windows 9x, you need to copy \winnt\system32\ntoskrnl.exe from a Windows 2000 method for your \Windows directory. Just copy Sysinternals BLUESCRN.SCR to your \system32 directory if on Windows NT/2K, or \Windows\System directory if on Windows 9x. Proper click within the desktop to carry up the Screen settings dialog then pick the "Screen Saver" tab. Make use of the pull down list to search out "Sysinternals Bluescreen" and apply it as your new screen saver. Decide on the "Settings" button to permit ######## disk exercise, which adds an additional touch of realism!
More Information
You can determine how actual Blue Screens are generated, and what the data around the Blue Display screen implies in my December 1997 Windows NT Journal NT Internals column,
Purchase Office 2007, "Inside the Blue Display."
Note: Some virus scanners flag the Bluescreen display saver as a virus. If this is actually the circumstance along with your virus scanner,
Windows 7 Ultimate Key, you could not have the ability to use this display screen saver.
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