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December
22

Change The BSOD or Blue Screen Of Death To A Different Color

Category: Windows Tips Crate, XP

desktop Everyone’s seen them before the dreaded BSOD (Blue Screen Of Death) Hopefully they don’t happen too often. But did you know that you can change the background color and the text color, so if you wanted you could have RSOD (Red Screen Of Death) or a GSOD (Green Screen Of Death) or many other colors.

bsod

Here’s how: First create a System Restore Point
Then.

  1. Open My computer and navigate to the folder where you have Windows installed (Normally C: Windows)
  2. Scroll down to you find system.ini2
  3. Right click system.ini and choose open with > notepad.Change the BSOD
  4. Look in the [386enh] section for the following text.MessageBackColor=
    MessageTextColor=

    If there not in there go ahead and add them.
    Here are the color codes to use after the = sign

    0 = black
    1 = blue
    2 = green
    3 = cyan
    4 = red
    5 = magenta
    6 = yellow/brown
    7 = white
    8 = gray
    9 = bright blue
    A = bright green
    B = bright cyan
    C = bright red
    D = bright magenta

    EXAMPLES:MessageBackColor=C Background color will be bright red.
    MessageTextColor=2 Text color will be green.

  5. Save the system.ini file to the same location as you opened it from.
  6. Restart your computer, and wait for the next crash.




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Change The BSOD or Blue Screen Of Death To A Different Color

  • andre | March 19th, 2008 at 4:39 am

    cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Mag1c Wind0w | July 4th, 2008 at 12:10 am

    It is very cool and funny but it is possible to change the color of the BSOD on Windows Vista ? :)

  • Kevin | July 4th, 2008 at 7:26 am

    @ Mag1c Wind0w, It should work the same, I have it setup on mine but I haven’t had a BSOD yet so I cant be 100% sure. Thanks for visiting and commenting.
    Kevin.

  • ale12396 | October 3rd, 2008 at 1:53 pm

    @ Kevin, to make a crash without breaking the computer (works only in Windows Vista), do this:
    1. Open Task Manager
    2. Go to Processes
    3. Click Show processes from all users
    4. End “csrss.exe”
    Done! Your computer will crash, but if you restart, it will work again.

  • Kevin | October 4th, 2008 at 7:12 pm

    @ale12396, Nice find It definitely will cause a crash.
    Kevin.

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