http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinte...s/bb897558.aspx
Uh, yeah. From Microsoft no less, and apparently is built so that it perfectly(?) emulates a crash on your computer with the safety of a screensaver. Why there'd be anything like this really escapes me right now. If it was an April Fool's, then it certainly came a few months too late. Interesting in that it uses your computer's data to make it look authentic.
You know, I should save this to my school's personal webspace so I can do it in the computer lab.
Edit: Just tried it on my own machine. Pretty convincing (it seems to use a different .sys file as the problem each time), though the WinXP loading bars went a little too fast for my machine for it to look authentic. You can't even mouse out of it, though I dunno if people usually attack the mouse when it crashes. My virus scanner of course picked it up as a joke file so naturally you'd need to disable it to get it to work. Now that makes me think I won't be able to get it to work at school, hrmm...
Uh, yeah. From Microsoft no less, and apparently is built so that it perfectly(?) emulates a crash on your computer with the safety of a screensaver. Why there'd be anything like this really escapes me right now. If it was an April Fool's, then it certainly came a few months too late. Interesting in that it uses your computer's data to make it look authentic.
You know, I should save this to my school's personal webspace so I can do it in the computer lab.
Edit: Just tried it on my own machine. Pretty convincing (it seems to use a different .sys file as the problem each time), though the WinXP loading bars went a little too fast for my machine for it to look authentic. You can't even mouse out of it, though I dunno if people usually attack the mouse when it crashes. My virus scanner of course picked it up as a joke file so naturally you'd need to disable it to get it to work. Now that makes me think I won't be able to get it to work at school, hrmm...