Just found this BlueScreen-saver on Sysinternal’s website:
One of the most feared colors in the NT world is blue. The infamous Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) will pop up on an NT system whenever something has gone terribly wrong. Bluescreen is a screen saver that not only authentically mimics a BSOD, but will simulate startup screens seen during a system boot.
•On NT 4.0 installations it simulates chkdsk of disk drives with errors!
•On Win2K and Windows 9x it presents the Win2K startup splash screen, complete with rotating progress band and progress control updates!
•On Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 it present the XP/Server 2003 startup splash screen with progress bar!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.
Use Bluescreen to amaze your friends and scare your enemies!
Although it doesn’t say, it also manages to perfectly emulate a Vista BSoD/bootscreen!
See this YouTube video I made for a demo
Will you use this on your coworkers/friends?
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Tam,
in the future, is it okay to < embed >a youtube video< /embed >?
its dangerous…colleague was using it. everyone who saw it switched off his computer or hardreset it and then said something like ‘i saw your computer reboot and crash in loop so i better switched it off’ or something similar.
The screensaver does not show the BIOS startup. So after the second or third “reboot” I think the NT developer will catch on that its not a real BSOD. Next version mabye.