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W i n d o w s  9 x

B l u e   S c r e e n   o f   D e a t h
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Revised January 26, 2001

Are you tired of the BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH?

Do you want to get rid of them forever?

Thousands of newsgroup posts appear every
day complaining about Windows errors which
create the frustrating and demoralizing 
BSOD ("Blue Screen of Death"). Occasionally,
the cause can be tracked and resolved; but 
sometimes (especially on Windows 95) there
just isn't any solution. Millions of Windows
users have resigned themselves to facing
these recurrent blue screens the rest of
their computing lives.

But no more! We have the solution! It only
requires a simple Windows configuration 
modification, and you will never see a 
"Blue Screen of Death" again!

Just change its color! You no longer have 
to restimulate your post-BSOD stress 
disorder with another single BSOD ever, 
if you just change the color of the error
screen! Instead, you can have a Red Screen
of Death (RSOD), a Green Screen of Death 
(GSOD), or even an elegant Magenta Screen 
of Death (MSOD) -- or back to BLUE

Here's how!

1.	Launch SYSEDIT.

2.	Select the file SYSTEM.INI.

3.	Find the [386Enh] section of that 
	file and add the following two 
	lines:

		MessageTextColor=<number>
		MessageBackColor=<number> 

	where <number> is in the range 	
	0-15 (in Hex) for text color and 
	0-7 for background color.

	The default is a foreground color 
	of 15 (F, or white) on a 
	background of 1 (blue, of course).

	The other numbers are as follows:

		0 - Black
		1 - Blue
		2 - Green
		3 - Cyan 
		4 - Red
		5 - Magenta
		6 - Yellow/Brown
		7 - White 
		8 - Gray
		9 - Bright Blue
		A - Bright Green
		B - Bright Cyan 
		C - Bright Red
		D - Bright Magenta
		E - Bright Yellow
		F - Bright White 


CREDIT DEPARTMENT: You can blame MS-MVP 
Ron Martell for this delightful discovery!
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