On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 02:45:18 -0600, mechtheist wrote: > I am no programmer, but know the rudiments [the rudi'est of rudiments] > of working with Python. I have a simple need, to have a simple > script/app I can run that will crash my PC. On my desktops, I can > always hit the reset, but that is not an option with my laptop. Can > anyone tell me of an easy way to guarantee a program will instantly > kill/BSOD my windows7/64bit laptop? > > Any help is much appreciated.
You realise that the operating system (yes, even Windows!) is designed to *not* crash no matter what the application does? (The OS may live up to that requirement imperfectly, but still, it tries.) You'll probably find that task easier from C than from Python. But if I were to attempt such a strange thing, I'd try to shut down some critical processes used by the OS. I'm not much of a Windows person, but if you call up the task manager (ctrl-alt-del) and inspect the process list, then find one that causes the machine to crash if you shut it down, you can probably do the same thing from a script. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
