Introduction
One of the most feared shades within the NT world is blue. The notorious Blue Screen of Demise (BSOD) will pop up on an NT program when one thing has gone terribly improper. Bluescreen is really a display saver that not only authentically mimics a BSOD, but will simulate startup screens observed in the course of a system boot.
On NT four.0 installations it simulates chkdsk of disk drives with problems!On Win2K and Windows 9x it presents the Win2K startup splash screen, full with rotating progress band and progress management updates!On Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 it presents the XP/Server 2003 startup splash screen with progress bar,
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Bluescreen cycles in between distinct Blue Screens and simulated boots every fifteen seconds or so. Nearly every one of the details shown on Bluescreen's BSOD and program commence screen is obtained out of your system configuration - its accuracy will fool even superior NT developers. By way of example, the NT build amount,
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Installation and Use
Note: before it is possible to operate Bluescreen on Windows 9x, you should duplicate \winnt\system32\ntoskrnl.exe from a Windows 2000 system for your \Windows directory. Basically copy Sysinternals BLUESCRN.SCR in your \system32 directory if on Windows NT/2K,
Windows 7 Professional Key, or \Windows\System directory if on Windows 9x. Right click on the desktop to bring up the Screen settings dialog and then decide on the "Screen Saver" tab. Utilize the pull down list to search out "Sysinternals Bluescreen" and use it as your new screen saver. Choose the "Settings" button to allow ######## disk exercise,
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More Information
You can determine how actual Blue Screens are produced, and what the data around the Blue Display screen signifies in my December 1997 Windows NT Magazine NT Internals column,
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Note: Some virus scanners flag the Bluescreen display screen saver as being a virus. If this is actually the case together with your virus scanner, you may not be able to use this display saver.
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