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Easiest way to crash windows xp?

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Nitromaster

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Post any way youve managed to crash xp.
I dont have a mac yet and have nothing against windows.

My setup
pentium d 920 2.8ghz
1 gb ram
300gb harddrive



Made a new account.
Put 51 objects onto the desktop
opened objectdock and put the same 51 objects onto it
Windows becomes unuseable
 
select all items in the C drive


then press enter. :)

This method works if you have a very full HD. last time i tried this, I think it was 175GB of a 200GB HD.
 
Type an important report due the next day. CRASH
Write the longest of emails, to your loved one across the other side of the world, explaining a million things (like where to meet, flight number, anything important) and just before you hit "send", CRASH
Go back to XP after installing Vista. XP acts like an ex-girlfriend that was dumped for Vista and there's no way she's taking you back. CRASH

This could prove to be a pretty long list :D
 
AppleMan101 said:
select all items in the C drive


then press enter. :)

This method works if you have a very full HD. last time i tried this, I think it was 175GB of a 200GB HD.
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Haha, I had a friend who was a hardcore PC user, and we were talking about things each system could do, I got so tired of the argument (he never did see that I was right), so I said "you know what, your system is better then mine... heres why." I then proceeded to crash his system this way, it was priceless.
 
I once read that if you held down the Windows key and right clicked, Windows would crash.

Never tried it though. And never believed it.
 
Technically, this has nothing to do with XP, but it will most certainly cause your system to lock up.

1) Do a hi-rez final render (Raytrace and Final Gather) on 3ds or Viz (From a 250Mb model). Proceed to manually override the CPU priority of the task to High or RealTime.

2) Sit back and watch as even the clock fails to update for over an hour.

3) Try for another 30-45 min to either kill the process or reduce the priority back to normal.
 
put a Windoze 95 disc in it.......

i put a Win. 95 Disc in, and it crashed, (i was gonna put it in a VM)
 
Groan... the Mac 'true believer' zealouts are out again, patting each other on the back and trying to convince themselves 'Mac is best', whilst failing to accept reality. Try running Mac OS on a crappy desktop machine and see how it fairs - oh wait, you can't. You can only put it on the machines Apple says you can...

Also, coming up with blatantly esoteric ways to crash a system hardly suggests an unstable operating system. More people who have the time trying to convince other people.

And finally, get over this 'Mac OS never crashes, Windows does all the time'. I have found both systems to be about as reliable as each other. At least when a machine running windows crashes it gives some kind of feedback. Mac OS just shows you a lovely coloured rainbow...
 
I'm sorry, but I've got to disagree with that. I use quite a few windows machines with work and school, and they all slow to a crawl over the most foolish things, and often crash.
 
jsw said:
Same here. And I've used both for many, many years.
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I agree, to a point I find that in macs it seems the programs lock up, on windows, at leat the ones i hve used a program locks up and the system ecomes unusable and i have to restart.
 
Type in "porn" under google and click on the website of your choice. Or use Kazaa

lancestraz said:
I once read that if you held down the Windows key and right clicked, Windows would crash.

Never tried it though. And never believed it.
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Just tried it on my PC - it is in fact a lie. But it seems logical enough to scare people into not doing it :p
 
dllavaneras said:
Type an important report due the next day. CRASH
Write the longest of emails, to your loved one across the other side of the world, explaining a million things (like where to meet, flight number, anything important) and just before you hit "send", CRASH

This could prove to be a pretty long list :D
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Indeed. Some crashes are cross-platform ;)

My most recent? Plugging in a new scanner towards the tail end of last week. First BSOD on any of my systems (and I have quite a lot) since about September I think.
 
Not to go abit of topic but,has anyone else notices XP crashing less while running in parallels than it does on an actual PC?Or am I just having some strange luck?First thing i did when I installed in on my macbook was try to crash it >.>
 
RestlessCaviar said:
And finally, get over this 'Mac OS never crashes, Windows does all the time'. I have found both systems to be about as reliable as each other. At least when a machine running windows crashes it gives some kind of feedback. Mac OS just shows you a lovely coloured rainbow...
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MacOSX gives you a window that tells you the program unexpectedly quit and gives you the option to open the program again and or send a report to Apple. Admittedly it doesnt tell you why it crashed but then it wouldnt be unexpected would it :D

When I had my PC the whole thing would just freeze and not do anything so you wouldnt know if it was still working or not. 99% of the time it wasnt. Eventually I got so sick of the thing I switched, twas a while ago though. :)
 
johnmartin78 said:
Not to go abit of topic but,has anyone else notices XP crashing less while running in parallels than it does on an actual PC?Or am I just having some strange luck?First thing i did when I installed in on my macbook was try to crash it >.>
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why would you try to crash it?
 
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