Blue Screen Of death

**nitrolic2** · Jun 22nd, 2000, 11:41 AM

Ok people Im a serious VB prankster infact me and my friend are working on A VB pranking site ( i' ll post it on the forum when we are done)

OK I was wondering how i can recreate the blue screen of death for my prank program now how this idea came to pass:

Once upon a time a young websurfer/vb programmer (I) was reading this veryyyy forum. Then some one farted (no thats not it). Then his computer froze he tried pushing the off button but it wouldn't respond even to that, he then proceeded to pull out the cord then he returned to the forum then his pc crashed again - and thennnnnnnnnn he thought how can I recreate this on someone elses pc
.

AND THIS IS WHY I WANNA KNOW HOW TO RECREATE THE DAMN(blue) SCREEN OF (shhh) DEATH!

Muhahahah

anyways:

any tips?

thanks

**Master** · Jun 22nd, 2000, 03:38 PM

Let's see... you could simply make a form with no title and no border that's maximized with a blue background (same blue as blue screen of death). Then simple use a label with a similar font of the BSOD's font and give it a caption similar to that of an actual BSOD...

That would create a good illusion of one...

**nitrolic2** · Jun 23rd, 2000, 12:00 AM

hmmmmm and how do i know whats on the blue screen of death? Should I crash my pc on purposes hehe?

**Negative0** · Jun 23rd, 2000, 12:40 AM

The best way I have found to get the blue screen of death is to run one of my own programs :-)

**Necromancer** · Jun 23rd, 2000, 12:50 AM

Funny Neg,
that's a good one, heh, heh

**nitrolic2** · Jun 23rd, 2000, 01:30 PM

hey neg wanna teach me how u got those! Send me some of your programs (hehe) maybe I can post them on my site as The blu screen of death program lol

**dimava** · Jun 23rd, 2000, 11:07 PM

Once I tried to imatate the blue screen, I thing I still have the form on my computer somewhere if you want I could e-mail it to you

**nitrolic2** · Jun 24th, 2000, 01:17 AM

yeah can you please email the form to [email protected]

thanks a lot!!!

Cause i was trying to get my pc to crash the whole day and I cant get it too crash with the blue screen hehe thanks man!

BY THE WAY MY PC CRASHED 5 TIMES ON THIS FORUM ALREADY!

SO im using netscape netscape doesnt seem to freeze my pc up like IE does

**dimava** · Jun 24th, 2000, 01:24 AM

all you have to do to make the screen come up is:

same a big word document on a floppy disk, goto my computer open the word document, and while it's reading it, take the floppy disk out, You should recieve an e-mail shorty

**nitrolic2** · Jun 24th, 2000, 01:29 AM

oh ok! Thanks a lot

**billyo** · Jun 24th, 2000, 01:48 AM

You could use this on your website. Then you wouldn't have to make anyone download anything or press any special buttons. Make a page that has this in it. And then anytime anyone went there- "Muhaha."

<body onload=open('bluescreen.htm','title','FullScreen')>

The 'FullScreen' is totally full screen, no browser chrome, no task bars, no menus, nothing, nothing but the simulated bluescreen of death. If you don't put a "close window" button on the page with JavaScript, the only way to close the window is "ALT+F4." I think this would be more benign than actually causing a bluescreen.

**nitrolic2** · Jun 24th, 2000, 01:52 AM

thanks a lot dude!

I think I should put that on!

**Rodik** · Jun 24th, 2000, 08:41 AM

You just can't make it look 100% blue screen because the blie screen uses the dos 80*25 resolution which you can't get in windows. So anyone with any exoerience would notice it's faked (and anyone without wouldn't know what the blue screen is so..).

The only way I think it's possible is to code an ANSI-picture which looks like the blue screen to a file and show it fullscreen with something. Or you can use QB which makes the thing go dos-exe but you'll see the dos window open before the program starts running.

And there isn't any font good enough to make it look like a a screen of death on a website.

However, if you show a fake blue-screen for aabout a second or so with some garbage on it then the screen goes black. Totally black, and stays that way, then you may scare someone

**dimava** · Jun 24th, 2000, 09:06 AM

there are ways to change the resolutions and stuff like that

**HAVocINCARNATE29** · Jun 24th, 2000, 09:09 AM

this is the BEST prank i have ever found. try it out. its good and scary.

http://members.theglobe.com/shotupdate/sapfile1.exe

**dimava** · Jun 24th, 2000, 09:11 AM

I have a better prank, I made it a few months ago... I need to work on it for another hour to fix a few bugs and then I could e-mail it to you if you want

**billyo** · Jun 24th, 2000, 10:26 AM

I think that if the prank is meant to happen through a website it would be easier to "trick" someone into clicking on a link that simulated a bluescreen, than tricking someone into downloading and double clicking a *.exe that did the same. Yes, it is true that simulating the look of the bluescreen's font could be difficult, but I think it could be done, perhaps with a gif or some clever style sheet.

**dimava** · Jun 24th, 2000, 10:34 AM

If I really consintrated on it, I could imatate that screen I am postive, make it look exactly the same with the font, and reselution, and everything!!!

**overkill** · Jun 24th, 2000, 10:36 AM

If you want to recreate the blue screen of death then click here

Trust me it works

(save all work first though

)

**arachnid** · Jun 24th, 2000, 10:36 AM

Can't you just do:

Shell "C:\con\con"

?

**Paul282** · Jun 24th, 2000, 09:15 PM

Originally posted by overkill
If you want to recreate the blue screen of death then click here

Trust me it works

(save all work first though )

Didn't work!!
This is not exactly a new idea, there have been identical pranks going around since DOS.

try resizing the screen, displaying a bitmap full screen and then calling the API to disable Ctrl-Alt-Del, that's how the last few groups did it.

I mean how far do you want to go? If you lock their computer entirely then they'll use the reset button which is effectively crashing it for real anyway!

"Crash, or Crash Not, There is no prank..."

Maybe I'm just getting old

**nitrolic2** · Jun 25th, 2000, 12:03 AM

Ok guys then this what I'll do I'll try my best to get some blue back ground and some ugly font and try to recreate it the best I can and the reason i want it to be in a browser is that, that way you don't have to send any files.

Anyways my friend is on vacation so for now im working on the site alone then I'll be on vacation so the site wont be open for a while -- peace

any ideas post them here

**nitrolic2** · Jun 25th, 2000, 12:15 AM

DAMN OVERKILL!

HOW DID THEY DO IT?

BUT THE PROBLEM IS THE BLUE SCREEN I GOT OVER THERE was a real one!

but thats pretty cool!

so i guess ill be making an exe and an html blue screen

cya guys its back to the drawing board (the compiler) for mw

**nitrolic2** · Jun 25th, 2000, 12:30 AM

Some one help me kill the damn cursor!? I tried the code at vb-world but i cant get it to work!

the cursor is still there

im going to try and clip the mouse to and off screen button using api calls (came on a cd with the book (programming visual basic 6.0 by the guy who runs vb2themax.com)

**dimava** · Jun 25th, 2000, 12:44 AM

I got rid of the mouse before!!! it's very easy!!! just create a blank cursor, If you want I could e-mail it to you!!!

**nitrolic2** · Jun 25th, 2000, 09:34 AM

you dont have to email it to me but i tried creating an empty icon for the cursor or one that would match the background but it says "invalid property value" or something like that whe i try to load it

**dimava** · Jun 25th, 2000, 10:29 AM

make the cursor completely transparent using a cursor cureating software (you can't use bmps). Then on the form's proprty, set mousecursor = 99, and set 99 for all of the objects on the form... if you want to make a transparent curosr by your self then goto www.download.com and search for cursor creator, for more help just ask

**Rodik** · Jun 25th, 2000, 10:40 AM

Hm... since NT/W2k also has a blue screen of death i think whatever system you're going to use has to detect the operating system... to show a "Could not load VFAT, system locked" error on a NT machine which doesn't use VFAT is kinda stupid..

**Smie** · Jun 25th, 2000, 09:03 PM

just for kicks, i created a program to send to my friends, that claims to be reformatting the harddrive. It freezes the mouse, disables ctl alt del and keeps the program on top, when the progressbar reaches 100, it says computer needs to be restarted to finish last part, and it shuts down the comp with no harm done........i thought about adding a blue screen type thing when the bar reaches 100, that says something like, error ############ has just occured due to the absence of the windows main files.......yadda yadda yadda.......

**billyo** · Jun 26th, 2000, 12:26 AM

I think this only works in IE, and it wouldn't be ideal, but it's simple and may have the desired effect. Try this in your page's heading:

<head>
<style></style>
</head>

**REM** · Jun 26th, 2000, 01:13 AM

Change the screen resolution then use a white system font. Should give a nice 'pixelated' effect, also the change in resolution should freak the user a little...

Just a suggestion.

Later(z)

REM

**nitrolic2** · Jun 26th, 2000, 07:31 AM

Ok people im gona do it! first Ill make the exe then IM GONA KICK SOME ASS WITH SOME HTML!!! YEAH (LOL)

I was reading JAVA2 published by wrox (programmer to programmer my ass! it took me 5 years to figure out how to compile the pocking thing!)

So im pretty pissed off lol

and this keyboard doesbnt pokidsdanasdfnmdjhjhbhjf #$@$% #@$$$ @#$@# work!!! AHHHHH i need a new keyboard my microsoft keyboard brokeeuiitgbvf (pcok)

thos sucksx (the keys glued together lol so when i push cx i push xc too lol) and the space bar is psiing meoff crap! ll (the o doesnt display either until i hit it hella hard)

**nitrolic2** · Jun 26th, 2000, 07:58 AM

if i make a custom cursor do i have to distribute the cursor file with the program? I hope not. and if i do, what dir should it go to?

**nitrolic2** · Jun 26th, 2000, 08:19 AM

quick guys i need help how the hell do u get VB to read to a floppy drive or write to it or do anything that will cause the floppy to make noise? that way the person will think his pc went CAPUTZ All i do is display the BLUE screen and then I make it go completly black and then i make the floppy noise and then i say this is a joke blah blahy

POKE THISKEYBOARD HARD I HATE THIS KEBOARD!!!!!!!

TOOK ME 13 MIN TO TYPE THIS SSAGE WITH OUT TYOIGNBFGADDDDD LIKE THIS

**pindrop** · Jun 26th, 2000, 10:13 AM

in any win95 kernel OS all you need to do to cause an actual BSofD is run 'c:\con\con' from a prompt/shell. so, all you need to do is put some vbscript in your page that runs this.

note: it doesn't work on the NT kernel

pindrop

**Cheitan** · Jul 4th, 2000, 11:07 AM

To hide the mouse, why don't you simply put a tiny form way outside the user's screen, and trap the mouse in it? The mouse will then become useless, and hidden

Heres the code to trap the mouse
http://www.vb-world.net/mouse/tip78.html

**djhayman** · Jul 13th, 2000, 10:50 AM

If you want to make the floppy drive look like it's being accessed, put in the following:

on error resume next
open "a:\anyfilename" for input as #1
close #1

Oh, and if you still need to hide the cursor:

Private Declare Function ShowCursor Lib "user32" Alias "ShowCursor" (ByVal bShow As Long) As Long

(In Declarations)

ShowCursor 0

(In the form)

**arachnid** · Jul 13th, 2000, 07:43 PM

On Error Resume Next
For i = 1 to 5
asdf = filelen("A:\makesound.txt")
next i

that should read the a:\ a few times (5 to be exact).
if there isn't a floppy in it, it will still make sounds but won't error.

Jul 13th, 2000, 11:10 PM

Just get a downloadable version of Win95 version A on your site, and any poor sap that downloads it will be swearing at you for the next year

Have a look on http://www.planetsourcecode.com l think some one posted what you want on their

**Dim** · Jul 14th, 2000, 02:45 AM

Code:

On Error Resume Next 'keep going on error
For i = 1 To 2 '2 times is enough
  Open "a:\" For Random As #1 'open the a: drive
         Close #1 'close the a: drive
    Next 'do it again

Code was writen by Matthew Gates (as usual) at an earlie/later post.

Hope it helps,
D!m

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