[Bluescreen Logo] Copyright © 1997 Mark Russinovich Last Updated November 11, 1997 NTInternals Blue Screen Screen Saver V1.02 Introduction One of the most feared colors in the NT world is blue. The infamous Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) will pop up on an NT system whenever something has gone terribly wrong. Bluescreen is a screen saver that not only authentically mimics a BSOD, but will simulate the blue screen seen during a system boot, complete with a fake chkdsk of disk drives with errors! It cycles between different Blue Screens and simulated boots every 15 seconds or so. Virtually all the information shown on Bluescreen's BSOD and system start screen is obtained from your system configuration - its accuracy will fool even advanced NT developers. For example, the NT build number, processor revision, loaded drivers and addresses, disk drive characteristics, and memory size are all taken from the system Bluescreen is running on. Use Bluescreen to amaze your friends and scare your enemies! Installation and Use There are two versions of Bluescreen: one that generates harmless disk activity during the simulated system boots to add to authenticity, and one that doesn't. If you have concerns about a screen saver exercising your disk, download the non-disk-enabled version, but if you want ultimate realism get the disk-enabled flavor. Simply copy BLUESCRN.SCR to your \system32 directory. Right click on the desktop to bring up the Display settings dialog and then select the "Screen Saver" tab. Use the pull down list to find "NT Internals Blue Screen" and apply it as your new screen saver. More Information You can find out how real Blue Screen's are generated, and what the information on the Blue Screen means in my December 1997 Windows NT Magazine NT Internal's column, "Inside the Blue Screen". ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Bluescreen (22KB) Download Disk-enabled Bluescreen (22KB) [Image]