This is a registry hack, so please back up your registry prior to following these instructions!
This is a pretty cool trick, but I'm not sure any end users would want to enable this feature of windows. What it does is when you hold down your Control button, and press the scroll lock twice, you get a nice new BSOD generated on demand.
The process:
To enable this you have to create a registry key. Open regedit (Click start, run, then type in "regedit" and click Ok) and navigate to the following key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\i8042prt\Parameters\
Then add a new value by either right clicking in the window where the values are displayed, or clicking on the edit menu, then going to new. Use the information below:
- Value Name:
- CrashOnCtrlScroll
- Data Type:
- REG_DWORD
- Value:
- 1
Restart your system for the hack to take effect. A more in-depth article on how to do the same thing can be found at the related links menu
How it works:
Microsoft programmed windows so that it would crash like that (generating a memory dump file as well) so hardware developers could test the hardware and work out bugs in the drivers.