The art of crashing Windows

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2003-02-09 11:13pm

I have only a question to ask but if anyone wants to discuss how to artistically crash windows, then go ahead.

My question is, seeing as how it takes about 30-50 programs up and running at the same time to crash XP, is there any reason why one would have 30-50 Internet Explorers or other programs up and running at the same time?

EDIT: Other than to crash windows ^_^

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2003-02-09 11:22pm

Winamp 3 + any other program.

salm · Post by **salm** » 2003-02-09 11:32pm

max + photshop + IE works really well.

Seggybop · Post by **Seggybop** » 2003-02-09 11:42pm

Alt+tab many times from games in quick succession

TrailerParkJawa · Post by **TrailerParkJawa** » 2003-02-10 12:44am

Believe it or not, at my last company there was an engineer that would routinely keep 30+ windows open at time. The scary thing was he pretty much knew what he was doing in each one. That is quite remarkable when considering while highly intelligent he was kinda dingy at times.

Any time he needed support, I had to remind him. Close and save all your work!

Exonerate · Post by **Exonerate** » 2003-02-10 12:44am

There's an art? I swear, you usually don't have to do anything. Hell, in the middle of typing this post, my comp suddenly restarted... If you feel like freezing windows, make a HTML file containing this:

Code: Select all

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>PLEASE FREEZE MY COMPUTER!!!</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="Javascript">
<!--
while(true)
	{
	window.open("http://www.stardestroyer.net/");
	}
//-->
</SCRIPT>
</BODY>
</HMTL>

Nathan F · Post by **Nathan F** » 2003-02-10 12:55am

Throwing you computer at the idiot bouncing a basketball in the hall while you are trying to get to sleep is a good way also...

Grrr...

My dorm is full of friggen drunkard idiots.

Brother-Captain Gaius · Post by **Brother-Captain Gaius** » 2003-02-10 01:48am

Exonerate wrote:There's an art? I swear, you usually don't have to do anything. Hell, in the middle of typing this post, my comp suddenly restarted... If you feel like freezing windows, make a HTML file containing this:
<snipped infinite loop>

That would indeed get the job done

Hyperion · Post by **Hyperion** » 2003-02-10 01:53am

On the subject of 30-40 windows open, that sounds like my normal load: 10-15 explorer windows, trillian (5 chat windows), YM (3-4 chat windows), ICQ (5-6 chat windows), winamp 2.80, kazaalite, shared folder open, lightwave 7.0, photoshop, and mspaint.

That's standard load for me, and people wonder why the hardware doesn't last more than 2 years before critical failures cause it to need replacement.

Hamel · Post by **Hamel** » 2003-02-10 01:56am

Kazza + winamp + IEs open = brink of death
Kazza + winamp + IEs open + something else = hit the fucking deck

salm · Post by **salm** » 2003-02-10 02:00am

Hyperion wrote:On the subject of 30-40 windows open, that sounds like my normal load: 10-15 explorer windows, trillian (5 chat windows), YM (3-4 chat windows), ICQ (5-6 chat windows), winamp 2.80, kazaalite, shared folder open, lightwave 7.0, photoshop, and mspaint.

That's standard load for me, and people wonder why the hardware doesn't last more than 2 years before critical failures cause it to need replacement.

you lightwave, surf and chat at the same time? can i see some results?

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2003-02-10 02:05am

While we're on this discussion about how we crash Windows, I wonder what it takes to crash Linux?

Hyperion · Post by **Hyperion** » 2003-02-10 02:13am

Hameru wrote:Kazza + winamp + IEs open = brink of death
Kazza + winamp + IEs open + something else = hit the fucking deck

Naw, that was my #3 computer after I accidentally installed a bad ram chip...

Hyperion · Post by **Hyperion** » 2003-02-10 02:13am

salm wrote:
Hyperion wrote:On the subject of 30-40 windows open, that sounds like my normal load: 10-15 explorer windows, trillian (5 chat windows), YM (3-4 chat windows), ICQ (5-6 chat windows), winamp 2.80, kazaalite, shared folder open, lightwave 7.0, photoshop, and mspaint.

That's standard load for me, and people wonder why the hardware doesn't last more than 2 years before critical failures cause it to need replacement.
you lightwave, surf and chat at the same time? can i see some results?

Results of what?

Hamel · Post by **Hamel** » 2003-02-10 02:15am

Hyperion wrote:
Hameru wrote:Kazza + winamp + IEs open = brink of death
Kazza + winamp + IEs open + something else = hit the fucking deck
Naw, that was my #3 computer after I accidentally installed a bad ram chip...

That particular situation regularly takes place on my 800 athlon with 256 megs.

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2003-02-10 02:15am

Hyperion wrote:
salm wrote:
Hyperion wrote:On the subject of 30-40 windows open, that sounds like my normal load: 10-15 explorer windows, trillian (5 chat windows), YM (3-4 chat windows), ICQ (5-6 chat windows), winamp 2.80, kazaalite, shared folder open, lightwave 7.0, photoshop, and mspaint.

That's standard load for me, and people wonder why the hardware doesn't last more than 2 years before critical failures cause it to need replacement.
you lightwave, surf and chat at the same time? can i see some results?
Results of what?

screencap?

Captain tycho · Post by **Captain tycho** » 2003-02-10 03:00am

Having over 10 thousand porno movies on your hard drive will do it.

Pistolero · Post by **Pistolero** » 2003-02-10 03:14am

Shinova wrote:While we're on this discussion about how we crash Windows, I wonder what it takes to crash Linux?

Try mounting an XP NTFS partition during boot. That'll do the trick.

Hyperion · Post by **Hyperion** » 2003-02-10 03:42am

CyberMacGyver wrote:
Shinova wrote:While we're on this discussion about how we crash Windows, I wonder what it takes to crash Linux?
Try mounting an XP NTFS partition during boot. That'll do the trick.

You mean more like have me try to operate Linux... 3 kernal panics in an hour and 3 installs... Needless to say the disks are collecting dust now.

Hyperion · Post by **Hyperion** » 2003-02-10 03:43am

Hameru wrote:
Hyperion wrote:
Hameru wrote:Kazza + winamp + IEs open = brink of death
Kazza + winamp + IEs open + something else = hit the fucking deck
Naw, that was my #3 computer after I accidentally installed a bad ram chip...
That particular situation regularly takes place on my 800 athlon with 256 megs.

I do wonder why there is a significant performance descrepancy between an Athlon T-bird 900 and a T-bird 1100... It's really wierd.

Post by **Gandalf** » 2003-02-10 04:16am

AOL does wonders for crashing hard drives.

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2003-02-10 08:38am

How To Trash Your Computer. Note: Back up all your data and dig out your Windows disk. You WILL need to reformat the thing.

1. Open IE
2. Set Security Settings to Low
3. Go to MSN Search.
4. Type in "Free Porn"
5. Start Hitting All Them Pretty Links!
6. Watch Your System Become a Smoldering Virused Popup-Infested Wreck.
7. Reboot and Repeat Several Times.

How to Fix:

1. Format C: /y
2. Install Linux...

Coaan · Post by **Coaan** » 2003-02-10 08:46am

Shinova wrote:I have only a question to ask but if anyone wants to discuss how to artistically crash windows, then go ahead.

My question is, seeing as how it takes about 30-50 programs up and running at the same time to crash XP, is there any reason why one would have 30-50 Internet Explorers or other programs up and running at the same time?

EDIT: Other than to crash windows ^_^

'Tis called multi tasking...

...usually when a regular net user gets going in a night....he/she can easily be using up to 30 windows at a time easily...(especially with opera, only ten times more efficient than ie) as well as music, winmx, paint shop pro, diablo 2 in the background( occasionly playing) countless chat windows....XP hasn't crashed on me yet despite this load.

Keevan_Colton · Post by **Keevan_Colton** » 2003-02-10 08:53am

Coaan wrote:
Shinova wrote:I have only a question to ask but if anyone wants to discuss how to artistically crash windows, then go ahead.

My question is, seeing as how it takes about 30-50 programs up and running at the same time to crash XP, is there any reason why one would have 30-50 Internet Explorers or other programs up and running at the same time?

EDIT: Other than to crash windows ^_^

'Tis called multi tasking......usually when a regular net user gets going in a night....he/she can easily be using up to 30 windows at a time easily...(especially with opera, only ten times more efficient than ie) as well as music, winmx, paint shop pro, diablo 2 in the background( occasionly playing) countless chat windows....XP hasn't crashed on me yet despite this load.

'cmon man, you've been round at my house....you see how I abuse multi-tasking....I had to get trillian because running MSN, Yahoo, IRC, ICQ and AIM at the same time along with PSP, WinMX, IE (for some sites), Opera (for general un-MS fucked sites), coffee cup (so much prettier for text editing pages than notepad), two or three copies of notepad (for things I want to jot down), a couple of wordpad windows (for whatever little bits of prose I'm working on) and winamp.....

Singular Quartet · Post by **Singular Quartet** » 2003-02-10 08:57am

Einhander Sn0m4n wrote:How To Trash Your Computer. Note: Back up all your data and dig out your Windows disk. You WILL need to reformat the thing.

1. Open IE
2. Set Security Settings to Low
3. Go to MSN Search.
4. Type in "Free Porn"
5. Start Hitting All Them Pretty Links!
6. Watch Your System Become a Smoldering Virused Popup-Infested Wreck.
7. Reboot and Repeat Several Times.

How to Fix:

1. Format C: /y
2. Install Linux...

That'll do it...

Now for the easy way of doing it, just go to run and tyope cmd. A command prompt will open up. Once inside, just type deltree windows, enter, y. That'll do it in, albeit rather permenantly.

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