5.5 ways to trigger a BSOD in Windows 

"dont do this yourself!" *shows exact cord you need to unplug*

BSoD is probably one of the most legendary and constant parts of windows.

There's a new way that's similar to the intended way to crash Windows, but it requires support for the long power button hold system. Basically, if you're trying to force a shutdown using the power button, Windows generates a crash dump before shutting down. The black screen shown tells you to release the power button as Windows collects error info.

:( “Your pillow ran into a problem and needs to restart. We’re just collecting some error info, and then we’ll fluff up for you.” 20% Complete

2:47 that was perfect timing

this is giving me major PTSD from when i had to constantly deal with bluescreens

Video aside, I loved the song you used. Very chill. I was in need of this now.

This video is a saviour. I actually needed to know how to do this and escape from some uncomfortable situation.

I swear... I swear someone, SOMEONE in the world searched for this video looking to screw a friend's computer as a revenge.

When we needed them most... they return.

On the Bluescreen Simulator, the instructions page says "To leave the BSOD screen, press Alt+F4 or F7". I found you also need to press CTRL (CTRL+ALT+ F4 or CTRL+ALT+F7). Edit: You only need to press CTRL instead of ALT.

There's also a Hyper-V keyboard version that you can find about on the "Forcing a System Crash from the Keyboard" Microsoft support article. Its path to where put the DWORD is HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\hyperkbd\Parameters.

I've had so many pc problems in my life that I literally flinch when I see a BSOD

It's nice to see you back, especially with such a topic at hand. I think it's also kind of funny that Microsoft coded an official way to BSOD a PC. Also, it wasn't easier to code a way to set the Registry values via a VBS script?

one time one app on my pc glitched and my dad started ending all the processes, i’m so glad he didn’t end all of them before my brother came in the room

"wininit" sounds like a Londoner trying to encourage his computer. "Win, innit?" Computer: "No, lose" **instant BSOD**

I remember when I was younger whenever I clicked on an image on internet explorer (This was the time IE wasn't dead) it went into a BSOD for some reason.

YES MY TECH FLIED THROUGH THE ROOF THANKS FOR TEACHING IT HOW TO FLY

this video gave me chills back in the day\

What a beautiful pillow on the preview

Alternative title: how to get out of doing anything at school computer lab

On some old NT versions, you could crash it from a cmd console by doing a dir listing of a big directory (system32 would usually suffice) and then rapidly hit a certain function key which brought up a small command history box and repeat the dir. Just doing this a few times would buffer enough dir listings and easily crash NT 3.51 or 4.0, depending on service packs. The double Control-Scroll Lock registry requires at least Windows 2000. I’ve worked at places where they’d deliberately enable this on some servers so they could force a reboot when some servers would hang and then be able to capture enough debug info to diagnose it later.

3:33 THAT'S NOT BLUE THAT'S GREEN

i tried the 1st one and guess what... IT WORKED! TYSM!

6th way:the "dont be mad" way: run notmyfault and trigger a bsod Edit: manual crash is safe just save your data

The legend is back!! Keep going bro I really like your videos 😄

Finally funded my favorite channel

i love bsods. favorite video

3:49 pc watching: oh cool pc then watching me open powershell as admin: O H N O

His Tech videos FLEW back!

THE VID IS SOO GOOD, WOULD LOVE A PART 2!! ❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!

I remember seeing the case #3 during my operating systems class, when the classmate pulled the removable HDD out before Windows cleanly close down.

yay you’re back

I'm very glad that the bsod pillow on the thumbnail is a real thing

Do part 2! I like this video

5:04 simply boot into WinRE, run command promt from there and rename the file. Even though you are not logged in, it will work as you are re-naming from system32

It's awesome you're back!🔆

The Thumbnail is perfect.

Thanks, i really wanted to test it on vm

YAY FLYTECH IS BACK

No one: Literally no one: FlyTech to Windows : *I’m going to end this man’s whole career*

"Not a real BSoD, but safe and fun" Lol I thought it's unsafe but you got me good! :D

This is amazing. I wonder if you can make the same video but with the RSOD

The BSOD Is Probably The Only Thing Windows Never Fails To Deliver XD

The brutal way is a Green Screen of Death lol

i love ur video to much btw i test the blue screen simulator is very very funny

My favourite way to BSoD is to install Windows in a Chromebook...

Omg, I thought you had like 900K subs! Your videos are amazing! Keep it up! :D

Man uses Firefox and duckduckgo, what a man of culture

The legend of bsod

i love the bsod pillow

The one time I triggered a BSoD was when I had a hardware glitch that said I needed to replace my memory. Computer crashed multiple times and I only got it fixed from a forced update. *Yeah, that was fun.*

This guy is literal insane, he sacrifice his own field PC just for us

BSOD simulator? Nice! Now I can experience older BSODs

I NEED THAT PILLOW!

I enjoy your tech content. Great stuff! Also: yes, I’ve encountered the bsod more than once. But not on purpose.

4:05 is actually the easiest and smartest one to do.

im gonna try this on my Mac

The “cheater” way i loved it 😂😂

2:05 It asks to be runned because it technically still runs if you edit it. Usually you would run it with regedit.exe (I believe) but this time you do with notepad.exe. That is happening because a .reg file isn't an executable itself.

3:43 no this is the 'GSoD'

"Wininit" Windows became british so it bluescreened itself out of shock

Surprising he recorded the crash even though some people don’t know how to

why does running wininit cause a BSOD?

Is there an explanation for why running wininit (as an admin, on a local user nothing happens) on a prompt crashes the system? Also, welcome back, Fly!

Wow. The 5.5th way just wanted me to install it.

i like this vid i subed!

i had a way to trigger blue screen on my old pc the only thing i had to do is spam click one of buttoms in notification menu, and since it was pretty grabage pc with outdated components, them after seconds i had bsod

So I was making a map in Portal 2 with the in game map editor and for some reason the game crashed and Blue Screened me. I was able to use my computer after it and was able to make more maps in Portal 2 after it by just deleting a few saves of the crashed map and verifying my files.

I want that pillow badly

Cool it worked

Hey Fly, have you thought about trying virt-manager? It runs on QEMU and KVM and is much more "realistic" than VMware.

I had the blue screen of death a few days ago. Just happened at random. I just was on internet and suddenly the blue screen of death. I tried everthing to fix it but it failed. Command prompt didn't reconize the codes to fix. Also for some reason that toshiba laptop had put my keys on Querty instead of Azerty. I also tried setting it back to fabric settings and also tried all the other settings but there was some kind of security wall that I couldn't get passed. I opened up my pc at the back accidently breaking the lit were the battery goes. Then accidently broke the protection around my hard drive when I took it out so my hard drive can't be put back in that laptop. The toshiba satelite pro was atleast 5 or 6 years old. I also tried putting in my windows 8.1 installation CD but that didn't fixed the error and also when I tried putting my windows 7 disk in it it didn't work. When I was with a friend who tried to help me my screen started to act weird. At some point there was a white screen full with squares on it. I decided to safe my hard drive and my CD station from it and my friend will despose of the broken laptop later for me. I then went to the a computer store and ordered a new gaming laptop which is a HP which I will get soon. Now I'm getting problems with my docking station which refuses to read itself on my second mini laptop. And both my USB hubs are slowly failing aswell because some USB ports don't work anymore. I'm planning to buy 2 new USB hubs soon and maybe a new hard drive docking station incase that the one I'm trying to use now is broken.

This remembers my good old days when I used to trigger the BSOD in my workplace machine.

I want that pillow imidietly 🤣

1:11 For Computers who don't have the Scroll lock Key! RightCtrl+Fn+K For Computers who Have Scroll Lock Key! RightCtrl+ScrollLock

Another way: Uninstall vanguard

The 5.5 way is perfect to make Windows Killscreen series

Fly:ends the life of windows *windows 11:WAIT THATS ILLEGAL

On my old laptop, I didn't get bluescreens so constantly and I weren't so scared of getting them. However, after getting my new PC I kept getting BSODs due to Kernel Power errors. I am terribly scared getting a blue screen now, just because of Fast Startup.

0:26 Cam we do it on old waste windows computer

I love this music

I actually want the pillow in the thumbnail

4:38 winlogon.exe to not winlogon.exe

I am extremely confused at the desktop shown at 3:15. The entire desktop appears to be upside down - the version info is at the top right, the version info and icon label text is upside down and reversed, and yet the taskbar is at the bottom. So it looks like you rotated the screen and then moved the taskbar to the top. **Scratches head**

Perfect! 5 ways to trigger a BSoD, 5 minutes the video

one time i actually got one so i can say that if you have multiple monitors, the only place the bsod will display is on your #1 monitor. the others will stay the same as they were before the crash

0:50 not even with pskill?

3:24 why is windows upside down

i remember when my old computer when ever i would unplug it & plug it back in & turn it on it would have this odd BSoD followed along with a short *beep* but for some reason, the hardware saves progress still, which is really weird. i still can't explain why this happens, to this day but it a weird mystery i havent solved

My editing software sometimes just decides that this is what it needs to do if I haven't saved for 3 hours. Good times.

So I guess if I use a Linux live distro and rename winlogon.exe from there it could work, right? 😈

You forgot 6: The idle way You must keep Windows on, After a long time it will give blue screen of death, BSoD didn't like to be inactive for a while *Remember*: You must not do anything to make the Error happen.

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0:48 in Windows XP: can end any system process using process explorer (or hacker) in Windows vista, 7 and 8: can end any system process through windows task manager in Windows 8.1: only can end wininit.exe in Windows 10 and later: can't end any process but can end wininit.exe *TREE* 1:06 in windows 7 (8 beta), it shows CRITICAL_OBJECT_TERMINATION (0xF4) 3:44 If Write Debugging Information is set (none), it disables crash dump

What do you use for filming in the background sometimes, but you get it instead of a blue screen of death on the brutal way? A green screen

I did the first way accidentally on my host because it says like "client/server" thing on task manager, so, I thought it was a virus and when I bsod I was thinking "have I killed csrss.exe?" And the answer is yes after check again on task manager the proprety lmao, I was so stupid Edit: I do the 4th way too on vm when I was trying to reproduce the "destroying windows 11 installer" by enderman xd

I WANT THAT PILLOW

I get this every day