Blue Screen of Death (BSoD) no more!
Most Micro$oft Windows user experience the Blue Screen of Death (BSoD) from time to time. For no apparent reason, the system decides to throw a bunch of garbled white on blue flavored rubbish at you.
In this article, we show you how to turn water into wine, or — well, change the color of the BSoD to something slightly less bold.
Step 1:
Locate the file system.ini. Usually, it is located in teh c:\windows\ folder. Open it with notepad, VIM or a similar text editor.
Step 2:
In the [386enh] section add the following two lines:
MessageBackColor=
MessageTextColor=
And assign a value to each of these, e.g.
MessageBackColor=1
MessageTextColor=2
chosen from the list below.
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0 = black
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1 = blue
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2 = green
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3 = cyan
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4 = red
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5 = magenta
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6 = yellow/brown
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7 = white
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8 = gray
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9 = bright blue
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A = bright green
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B = bright cyan
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C = bright red
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D = bright magenta
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E = bright yellow
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F = bright white
Step 3:
Close the file saving the changes
Step 4:
Reboot your computer.
Step 5:
Generate a BSoD on demand. Read the guide over at tech recipes for that. The result:
Impressive, aye?
[1] Petri
[3] Tech-Recipes
