change color bsod

Is it true, that the color of the "Bluescreen" can be changed? or is it just another urban legend?

I believe you could on windows 98 - then again, you could force a bsod...
Tom
"Jens Mander" wrote in message

Is it true, that the color of the "Bluescreen" can be changed? or is it just another urban legend?

It's quite true. There's a tweak to do in X-Setup (www.x-setup.net), among other tweakers (and it works as far as XP, too). -- Pierre Szwarc Paris, France PGP key ID 0x75B5779B ------------------------------------------------ Multitasking: Reading in the bathroom ! ------------------------------------------------
"Jens Mander" a écrit dans le message de news: %2380odN5bGHA.4604@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... | Is it true, that the color of the "Bluescreen" can be changed? or is it just | another urban legend? | |

this is the core improvment of vista....
-- "What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are." - Epictetus 55-135
"Jens Mander" wrote in message

Is it true, that the color of the "Bluescreen" can be changed? or is it just another urban legend?

John Jay Smith wrote:

this is the core improvment of vista....

I'd laugh, but you are prolly not kidding. ;-)

On Thu, 04 May 2006 17:11:14 +0100, Tom wrote:

I believe you could on windows 98 - then again, you could force a bsod....
Tom

You can in XP also...
http://psacake.com/web/jr.asp

Now I understand why it's 50 million lines of code.
"mamamia" wrote in message

John Jay Smith wrote: this is the core improvment of vista....
I'd laugh, but you are prolly not kidding. ;-)

If it's not blue then it is no longer a blue screen.
Jens Mander wrote: | Is it true, that the color of the "Bluescreen" can be changed? or is it | just another urban legend?

True, but it can still be a BSOD, as in B(lack) Screen of Death, or B(loody) Screen of Death <g> -- Pierre Szwarc Paris, France PGP key ID 0x75B5779B ------------------------------------------------ Multitasking: Reading in the bathroom ! ------------------------------------------------
"Turn Round" a écrit dans le message de news: uocsZ81cGHA.3352@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... | If it's not blue then it is no longer a blue screen. |

LOL
Pierre Szwarc wrote: | True, but it can still be a BSOD, as in B(lack) Screen of Death, or | B(loody) Screen of Death <g> | | "Turn Round" a écrit dans le message de news: | uocsZ81cGHA.3352@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... || If it's not blue then it is no longer a blue screen.

Still blue to me...
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--: Original message follows :-- "Turn Round" wrote in message

LOL
Pierre Szwarc wrote: | True, but it can still be a BSOD, as in B(lack) Screen of Death, or | B(loody) Screen of Death <g | | "Turn Round" a écrit dans le message de news: | uocsZ81cGHA.3352@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... || If it's not blue then it is no longer a blue screen.

Back in the days of Win98, I had mine pink with yellow text ;) Can't remember how I did it though :(
-- Jane, not plain ;) 64bit enabled ;) Batteries not included. Braincell on vacation.

HAX lol
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--: Original message follows :-- "Jane Colman" wrote in message

Back in the days of Win98, I had mine pink with yellow text ;) Can't remember how I did it though :(
-- Jane, not plain ;) 64bit enabled ;) Batteries not included. Braincell on vacation.