1: help-troubleshoot-the-blue-screen-of-death-by-preventing-automatic-reboot
One of the most frustrating things about troubleshooting random blue screen errors is that the computer reboots before you have a chance to write down the error messages so you can Google them later. Here’s how to fix that. This is especially annoying if you keep getting blue screen errors because of some device conflict—I remember watching one of my friends trying to time it so he could snap a picture with his camera before it rebooted… Disable Automatic Reboot after Blue Screen Errors The quick and easy solution is to just turn off the automatic reboot option and force the blue screen to stay there, so that’s what we’ll show today. Right-click on the Computer icon and choose Properties. Windows 7 or Vista users will be taken to the system properties screen, so click on Advanced system settings. The Advanced tab should already be selected, so you’ll want to click the Settings button under “Startup and Recovery”. Here we go… just uncheck the option for Automatically restart under the System failure section. Next time you get a BSOD you’ll be able to see it and able to write down the error message. You’ll have to manually reboot the computer if this happens, of course. 2: Keyboard Ninja: Kill Windows with the Blue Screen of Death in 3 Keystrokes Have you ever wanted to show off your keyboard ninja skills by taking down Windows with just a couple of keystrokes? All you have to do is add one registry key, and then you can impress your friends… or use it to convince people to switch to Linux. This isn’t a bug, it’s a “feature” in Windows that is designed to let users trigger a crash dump for testing purposes. There’s even a whole Microsoft KB article on the subject. To enable this feature, open up regedit and then browse down to one of these keys, depending on your keyboard type: USB Keyboard block quote HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\kbdhid\Parameters block quote end PS/2 Keyboard block quote HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\i8042prt\Parameters block quote end Now right-click on the right-hand pane and add a new DWORD key named CrashOnCtrlScroll, giving it a value of 1. Reboot your computer, and when it starts back up you can trigger the Blue Screen of Death by using the following keyboard shortcut: block quote Hold down Right Ctrl and hit Scroll Lock twice block quote end To remove this “feature” you can just delete the registry key and then restart your computer again. Please note that following article 2 might crash your computer if not properly executed … really isn’t very useful, but it’s lots of fun =) To unsubscribe send a message to [email protected] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
