On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 at 20:33:22, Dave Walker wrote:
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>The other nasty trick for Windows users is to install the screen saver from
>www.sysinternals.com that realistically simulates your system crashing and
>rebooting! I have seen users hit the reset button before they realised
>that simply pressing a key or moving the mouse would get rid of it.
I have seen one that simulates formatting the hard disk -
format c:
This will erase all data on the fixed disk c:
Do you want to continue: Y
... and including pretty realistic hard disk activity.
Lau also wrote something similar for the QL - it is on my BBS somewhere.
It simulates an NT boot. I will have a look.
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