xSOD: Pick the Color For Your Screens of Death
- Jan 12, 2011 1:41 AM EST
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I wasn't the only one who was amused by Mark Russinovich's Tech Ed presentation in which he demonstrated how to make the Blue Screen of Death come up in different colors.
In the spirit of giving the people what they want, whether it does them any good or not, Mark and his colleague Alex Ionescu have upgraded their "Notmyfault" tool, distributed with their highly-regarded Windows Internals book. This tool (see image below and click it for full-size) crashes the system deliberately with a user-selected error condition.
Now you can customize the color of that Windows crash screen. Choose the desired foreground-background combination and boom! Consider the BlueOnCyan Screen of Death below. Alas, the setting is not persistent to other crashes.