Blue Screen Of Death

In WindowsNt and WindowsTwoThousand, a post-mortem dump so named for its background color. Commonly referred to as a "Bee-sod."


        Windows NT crashed.

        I am the Blue Screen of Death.

        No one hears your screams.

        -- Peter Rothman

Old joke:


        A: Windows NT doesn't have nag screens.

        B: Then what are these blue things that keep popping up?

Or change the color to whatever you want (within the old standard 16 choices). Edit system.ini and add 2 lines to the [386enh] section:


        MessageBackColor=2

        MessageTextColor=C

The above example results in a bright red on green BSOD.

= black
= blue
= green
= cyan
= red
= magenta
= yellow/brown
= white
= gray
= bright blue


        A = bright green

        B = bright cyan

        C = bright red

        D = bright magenta

        E = bright yellow

        F = bright white

Ad space on the BlueScreenOfDeath is a business opportunity that MicrosoftCorporation has yet to exploit. I wonder what AppleComputer would pay?

The BlueScreenOfDeath was also a rollicking good YearTwoThousand story by PeterMerel. Try http://home.san.rr.com/merel/bs.html --- Link goes to a "we kicked this user off last week" page, please update