[BlueScreen logo] Copyright © 1996 Mark Russinovich and OSR last updated December 12, 1996 OSR's Blue Screen of Death Screen Saver Introduction One of the most feared colors in the NT world is blue. The infamous Blue Screen of Death will pop up on an NT system whenever something has gone terribly wrong (see NTCrash for an example of a program that generates real blue-screens). OSRBSOD is a screen saver that comes courtesy of our friends at OSR Open Systems Resources (who Mark works for). It will throw authentic 'fake' blue screens onto your display (it works on NT 4.0 only) and every time it comes up, it will present a different real NT error code. Amuse your friends and scare your enemies! Using OSRBSOD Simply copy OSRBSOD.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 OSRBSOD and apply it as your new screen saver. How it Works OSRBSOD uses Direct X to put the display into 640x480 mode. It them dumps error text onto the screen using a custom font (specified in a bitmap resource). While OSRBSOD displays error screens that are almost indistinguishable from real blue-screens, Direct X does not support mode 640x400, the mode used by the real blue-screen code, so OSRBSOD cannot exactly duplicate a real blue screen. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Download OSRBSOD (20KB) [Image]