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How To Create Windows Error Messages

Here’s a quick how to on creating your own Windows Error messages.

  1. Open up notepad and copy/paste the following text:
    X = MsgBox(“Box Text”, 0+16,”Box Title”)
  2. Edit the words in “Box Text” with your error message.
  3. Edit the words in “Box Title” with the title of your error message.
  4. Optionally, you can also change the number/s (listed below) to display different buttons.
  5. Click on File > Save As…
  6. Name the file anything you want and add the .vbs extension to it.
    Ex: error.vbs
  7. Open your newly created file to see the error message.

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Make XP BSOD On Demand

Have you ever wanted to make your Windows machine BSOD on demand? Well this registry hack does just that.

WARNING! Before you start modifying your registry you should make a backup or risk hosing your entire system.

First you need to disable the restart automatically on system failure setting.

  1. Right Click on My Computer
  2. Click on properties
  3. In the System Properties menu click on the Advanced Tab
  4. Under Startup and Recovery click on Settings
  5. Under System Failure uncheck the Automatically Restart box

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Hidden Notepad Trick

**Note: This trick only works in Windows XP machines.**

  1. Open up notepad.
  2. Type “Bush hid the facts”
  3. Then save the file; you can save it under any filename.
  4. Close notepad.
  5. Now open up the same file you just created and you’ll noticed that what you typed before is gone…

Just a coincidence? Or maybe someone in Microsoft knows something?

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