How to crash Windows 98 very, very badly
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This does NOT work under 98SE or a copy of 98 with the Y2K bug fix.
OK, here's the instructions....- Open MS-DOS Prompt
- Type in cd \windows\command
- Now type in edit con.bat
- Type in echo hello
- Now go to the File menu and choose Save As
- Save it as con.bat
- If it doesn't work, it's probably because your machine has been patched. But if it does.... Read on.
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ARGH! NO EDIT!
If it works, it can range from a
Windows Crash Message to many BLACK screens of death... y'know the ones
with the white box in the middle and that evil font. A friend of mine
did this and got loads of BlkSODs with each program in memory. Then it
rebooted, undamaged.
I've had worse with a Gateway PC but that's unrelated.
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Apparently a HTML img tag with the src parameter "C:\con\con" will crash 98 machines
If the forum software allows be it should have the image to my right :
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Manni's two-step guide to crashing Windows 98:
1. Turn computer on
2. Attempt to use itYou should be seeing a blue screen of death anytime now. You may think that nobody uses Windows 98, but I have a member of my extended family that has both an XP and a 98 (not SE) machine, and another friend of mine is using Win 95 OSR2. I almost sharted in my pants when I learneda about this. What kind of world do we live in?
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@paranoidgeek said:
If the forum software allows be it should have the image to my right :
Don't do that!! There are many machines out there that don't have #256015 installed and their machine *will* crash when they try to access this page. Very very evil...
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You shouldn't be doing this.
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@paranoidgeek said:
Apparently a HTML img tag with the src parameter "C:\con\con" will crash 98 machines
If the forum software allows be it should have the image to my right :
hah, I just tried that in a virtual machine and I got a blue screen of death, lol.
(using VMware Workstation 5.5, btw).
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Yeah i maybe shouldnt have done that .... ohh well all my machines run Linux anyway.
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@Manni said:
I have a member of my extended family that has both an XP and a 98 (not SE) machine, and another friend of mine is using Win 95 OSR2.
Whoa... how 20th century!
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@Manni said:
You may think that nobody uses Windows 98, but I have a member of my extended family that has both an XP and a 98 (not SE) machine, and another friend of mine is using Win 95 OSR2. I almost sharted in my pants when I learneda about this. What kind of world do we live in?
A good friend of mine would never have touched XP if his uni hadn't required it to connect to the network. Even then he spent weeks fighting it, trying to find a driver or way around it, but in the end he finally upgraded. All that just for marginally superior dos game compatibility.
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I'm using a customised 98SE myself... I've tried XP but then reverted back to 98SE since using XP was such an exasperating experience.
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XP is better than 98.
DISCUSS
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XP was such an exasperating experience.
Because it, like, works?
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@llxx said:
I've tried XP but then reverted back to 98SE since using XP was such an exasperating experience.
I know.ย Where's a blue screen of death when you want one?
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I had BSODs in XP, when I ran a game with slightly outdated video drivers.
I have one DOS game left, Raptor, and it plays without problem under XP.
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@Manni said:
Manni's two-step guide to crashing Windows 98:
1. Turn computer on
2. Attempt to use itYou should be seeing a blue screen of death anytime now. You may think that nobody uses Windows 98, but I have a member of my extended family that has both an XP and a 98 (not SE) machine, and another friend of mine is using Win 95 OSR2. I almost sharted in my pants when I learneda about this. What kind of world do we live in?
Lepoete's one step guide to crashing Windows ME:
1. Turn on computer[:S]
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@Le Poete said:
@Manni said:
Manni's two-step guide to crashing Windows 98:
1. Turn computer on
2. Attempt to use itYou should be seeing a blue screen of death anytime now. You may think that nobody uses Windows 98, but I have a member of my extended family that has both an XP and a 98 (not SE) machine, and another friend of mine is using Win 95 OSR2. I almost sharted in my pants when I learneda about this. What kind of world do we live in?
Lepoete's one step guide to crashing Windows ME:
1. Turn on computer[:S]
Windows ME jokes? What year is this and is this website catering completely to retards now? Boy, those are the kinds of jokes I'd expect from "computer experts" who get all their knowledge from that talk radio call-in-show with the woman who calls herself "Kim Kommando" - The Kommando Hour of Power?
Sincerely,
Richard Nixon
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The joy of c:\con\con:
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Looking at the comments:
I wonder if MS will issue patches for affected systems that are out of their support lifespan? After the patch they made recently for old systems, if they do it again, it starts to make it look like the systems are actually supported..
Except this isn't a remote execution exploit that was used to cripple large networks of computers, and has no lasting effects past a reboot. Plus, the impact is lessened by the fact most browsers block
file:///
URLs in webpages by default.Just 'tested' on someone else's system. Yup. It crashes. He should've locked that desktop.
Test on your own system you prat.
A pity the file wasn't named M$FT.
2004 called: it wants its meme back.
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>.>
<.<
>.>That's actually the worst I can find out of 79 comments. What's going on? Why is everyone being so reasonable? This is the Internet, dognabbit!
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I was just pleased to find we had a thread on the topic already.
It seems that if you stick to the idea of "One and only one topic of conversation per thread" things are pretty organised......
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@Helix said in How to crash Windows 98 very, very badly:
The joy of c:\con\con:
I'm hoping they hold the next c:\con\con con to the O2 in London.
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@paranoidgeek said in How to crash Windows 98 very, very badly:
C:\con\con
that inspires a question:
what does Linux machine do when it encounters
, or ?please report :-D
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@sh_code Probably what you'd expect.
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@sh_code said in How to crash Windows 98 very, very badly:
what does Linux machine do when it encounters
, or ?Typically? Nothing. Unix browsers won't auto-open devices for that sort of thing. I remember when that wasn't true, and people had โgreat funโ with links to
/dev/mouse
and/dev/fd1
, but that was fixed back in 1993 and the remnants of that fix remain today because holy hell those were annoying faults.
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lol, nice.
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That's why you don't use special names. EVER.
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@CreatedToDislikeThis said in How to crash Windows 98 very, very badly:
That's why you don't use special names. EVER.
But... My name is special! โโ
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@CreatedToDislikeThis Then how do you refer to special devices?
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file:///c:/$MFT/123
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Alternately, an easier way to crash your Windows 98 computer: just install Windows ME on it.
(I know, I know... )
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@anotherusername
But that is obviously more work ... with all that floppy swapping
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@Luhmann said in How to crash Windows 98 very, very badly:
floppy swapping
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@Luhmann said in How to crash Windows 98 very, very badly:
But that is obviously more work ... with all that floppy swapping
That sort of thing was OK until you got a virus.
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@dkf said in How to crash Windows 98 very, very badly:
got a virus
Yeah the Internet made a lot of stuff easier