BSOD Screensaver
November 12th, 2006
The blue screen of death is one of the most annoying screens you can get on Windows. I think I’ve only seen it on my computer once in about the 3 years I’ve got it but I saw a computer at the weekend with BSoD-ed whenever somebody logged in and tried to use it for more than a minute or so. I think the computer was infected with a virus but we hypothesized some other possible reasons, such as the proximity of a stand selling Apple products just next door.
For those of you who don’t see the BSoD enough, you can get a Blue Screen of Death screensaver at the Microsoft website. The screensaver is designed to be quite realistic and to adapt depending on the operating system. It even shows the bootup screen!
Bluescreen cycles between different Blue Screens and simulated boots every 15 seconds or so. Virtually all the information shown on Bluescreen’s BSOD and system start screen is obtained from your system configuration - its accuracy will fool even advanced NT developers. For example, the NT build number, processor revision, loaded drivers and addresses, disk drive characteristics, and memory size are all taken from the system Bluescreen is running on.
A bit of fun for LAN parties I suppose.
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I’ve never had that with XP. I’ve had a blue screen flash and then my PC cut out when I connect my camera on webcam mode (dodgy drives I presume), but no BSOD.
The blue screen flash is the BSOD, xp reboots immediately afterwards by default.
Linux (xscreensaver) also has a screensaver like this, but with other OS crashes as well.
hm… my antivirus yelled at me when I tried to install this. Oh well.
I’ve never had that with XP