@echo.%0^|%0›$^_^.c^md&$_›nul 

That ^_^ in the middle makes this one-liner more sinister O_O

it crashed so hard that the error windows went back to their old theme

guys i ran this and it made my pc even faster! its even got a ^_^ to show you how safe it is!

1:47 "I think the video driver crashed" if it did, windows would fall back to the default VGA display driver which only supports the 800x600 display resolution, so the screen resolution would drop immediately. however, the error message box theme was once default and then turned to the traditional windows style, so it's the desktop window manager (aka dwm.exe) that crashed... or at least generated an exception

The return of C:\con\con

"isn't it beautiful?" *computer dies*

bro created the ^_^ bomb

the equivalent of putting a fork into a microwave. but for windows.

1:36 the system literally cannot

Every windows user when windows crashes: CTRL + ALT + DEL 💥 CTRL + SHIFT + ESC 💥 ALT + F4💥

When I saw the %0^|%0 I just knew

What a great one-liner, not only does it have prank-potential, but I'm certain it can find use in hobbyist malware as an alternative to forcefully shutting down or bluescreening!

I started laughing the moment I read the title. Hilarious. I didn't realize I could spot a forkbomb so easily.

I don't know if you know this, but pressing Control + Win + Shift + B, you reset video drivers.👍

Fun fact: i recently discovered that this also works on Windows 7, so it will probably work on XP, 8 and 10.

your voiceover, with the computer sounds and the clicking of the keyboard, makes this video remind me a lot of the great dancoot1

*opens notepad++* mr krabs! i have an ideeeaaaaa

I don't know if the obfuscation was supposed to suggest otherwise but I knew it was fork bomb as soon as I saw the title of the video. The pipe character is a dead give away.

Bro actually broke Alt+F4 💀

Yes! Let's gooooo new video!!

funny how Windows will just die from a fork bomb, but Linux will somehow survive it and after a few minutes my system unfreezes after running it. Might honestly just depend on how many system resources you have.

A fork bomb? No, no, it's a CreateProcessW bomb

The farthest back I tried this on was Windows XP, so it’s safe to say that it works on pretty much any NT based OS. I did try with 9x but I couldn’t get it to work

how about %0|%0 - doesn't that do a similar thing? edit: i just ran that in a VM and managed to fork bomb my host machine 😭

8:13 bro lit a bomb and tried to pinch the fuse 🤣🤣🤣🔥💣🤏

Do not put the fork in the terminal.

Fun fact: This one-liner won't work as intended if you have a variable named: 0^| You can modify $_.cmd this way without modifying the one-liner itself.

that instantly causes a stack overflow under wine

Win+Ctrl+Shift+B reloads the graphics driver.

Haven't watched the video all the way through yet but I'm guessing it's a fork bomb? the windows equivalent of :(){:|:&};: also some of the characters in the command are definitely redundant. you don't need to prefix a command with @ to keep it from being shown to the terminal outside of a batch script, and the numerous carets to escape random symbols that don't need escaping could just be removed and it'd work exactly the same (apart form the one in front of the pipe). EDIT: yeah. Reading the command more closely it's equivalent to echo. %0|%0 > $_.cmd & $_ > NUL Writes the text "%0|%0" into a file named "$_.cmd" and then invokes it, redirecting its stdout to the Windows equivalent of /dev/null. It works more or less exactly the same way the Linux fork bomb does, only it looks weirder, and uses a temporary file instead of a function definition because it is 2024 and Windows command interpreter does not support functions.

You should make a video (if you haven’t already) about how to truly enable classic theme or the basic aero theme on Windows 10 or 11, not through installing add-ons but through disabling things or other registry tweaks or whatever it would take, since clearly they’re both still built in to windows.

Bro desperately trying to break the command killed me lol

very informative title! jokes aside thank you for your content i remember watching your videos when i was a child and because of you i am now learning more about PC software,hardware and malware you changed me in a good way

My computer is so good that It does that without me even running the command👍🏻

most of the time I don't understand your videos , but I enjoy them ! it's the best when you crash something , it's so fun to watch . I also learn a lot from your videos glad to see you back

Welcome back! Wonderful video as always. Great job on the narration as well!

We love you Enderman (Andrew)

it's good to have you back! We really missed your videos. Please try to release videos more often.

imagine if you just button bashed this string in your computer and destroyed it in the process

For whoever is wondering, the Old UI Theme being shown is because the most recent Windows versions are based on Windows NT, it's the hidden layer behind the new UI.

"oh no, my computer crashed ! But I had an antivirus..."

0:27 pretty normal for windows 11, all u gotta do is restart explorer

zuma on desktop... gigachad

Famous last words: "Isn't it beautiful?"

Ahhh that intro feels amazing to hear again.

pc: *dies* also pc: classic theme cuz i couldnt find dwm when it crashed

you make the BEST videos!!! been watching since 2020 or 2021 :)

Fun fact: if you type a RU-vid video's title into command prompt, it will open up your browser and redirect to the video! You can even try it right now by opening cmd and copy and pasting this video's title.

It originated in Unix not Linux fork just means you split the process in two, idk whats confusing about that

You know its a great day when enderman uploads

that's one funky fork bomb

the bass boosted *or am I* I fucking CANT BRO 😭

Enderman i have a challenge for you. Install Windows to folder named / it should be Very brocken

I tried running it in Wine 9.0 and just got "Känner inte igen '$_' som ett internt eller externt kommando, eller batchskript." (it doesn't recognize the command "$_"). By the way, shouldn't you replace the "›" in the video title with ">"?

“Isn’t beautiful?”😍

it's so weird coming back after years and hearing him tallk

That's for what we've waited 3 months

Someone added this to the fork bomb wikipedia page

It would be fun to set that as a startup program

Fun fact, fork doesn't duplicate memory until something is changed in execution, so if your forked task doesn't create new memory or do stuff, afaik it doesn't copy at all

Easier way to make your pc crash like that : bluestacks, a vm, and spotify or discord call ^_^

Where you downloaded your cursor?

Just realized at the end that you have portal installed... Imagine having the fork bomb running while playing portal...

2:12 you could've also pressed Ctrl+Shift+Windows key+B to reset the video drivers.

Enderman Upgraded to Windows 11 Again!

Those Tasks Are Called "Cmd" in Taskmgr , It Takes about 0.1MB To 0.7MB (In My Windows 11 VM Test)

New Idea: Installing Windows with a Directory of " " spacebar

so, funny story, right i ran a fork bomb on Win10 near graduation, and instead of crashing DWM/the video driver, everything got clogged up to the point where the framebuffer was overflowing as well and the bluescreen was 2 pixels tall, and only about a third of the total length of that line was actually blue. it got that bad.

One way I usually explain fork bombs is a hydra with auto-decapitation. Simple enough for most to understand ig.

Ctrl shift win B restarts the gpu, fun fact!

It crashed so brutally, Windows 11 thought it was Windows 95 I hoped for the old old old bluescreen

i used to watch this guy so much

the UWUWUWUWUWUWUWU of despair as the fork bomb runs JGKDJFKDMG

Do you plan to do some content on Windows PE? Playing games, exploring differences, modding it, showing quirks and interesting discoveries, idk... adding copilot, microsoft store, desktop, WSL and things like that. Imho it's a goldmine of content

As a consequence of this spell, a script that creates and runs a copy of itself will be ran recursively. Fork Bomb!

hey enderman Im your fan for about a year now. I have video suggestion. Can you try to get a cupy of windows on icloud, foofle drive or dropbox?

I have batch that I made long time ago (at least 10 years ago) that have only 5 chars: %0|%0 that's it, that was all that make it for fork bomb. Your is just have intermediate state of manually creating one. In my case it was produced popup windows as well and parent was long time destoryed, so there is no way to "terminate tree", you can't stop it because it already closed and every frame it created 2 new ones and one was destroyed. So it is more guaranteed solution to eventually kill everything..

the windows fork bomb, thats insane

With the amount of fallbacks and error checks windows has, that’s pretty impressive. No bluescreen either.

Enderman is back, Let's go!

The new video is special one its a new idea!

Yaaayyy a new voiced video!

But does Ctrl + Win + Shift + B work when the graphics driver goes off?

2:35 The jump from *291* to *623* processes in background, what a disaster.

It's also a way to expose the classic theme, though

pro version of @echo off :virus start cmd.exe goto :virus

I love when you cause a error so bad windows goes back a few generations with its theme, not sure if thats windows 7 or 8, I'd say 8

"command script or batch script are interchangable" theres a very, very slight difference: in batch scripts,the ERRORLEVEL variable does not get reset after a successful command, whereas in a .cmd script, it does

No windowses harmed in this video

The Enter at 0:59 is the least aggresive Enter I've ever heard

Enderman : Guys, this is a FORK Bomb Fans : Naaah. it's ^_^ Bomb Enderman : Ok, anyway, it'a bomb, and i will not run it in my machine Fans : Really? Enderman : Yeah..... (thinking), or am i? Ok, let's give it a try (the code is running) Oh crap, Ctrl+C, Ctrl+C.. Screw it, exit.

Thanks for the idea. Now I'm going to try it out on my college lab computer 😈😈😈

Can you do Windows instaling speedrun? also nice video

GUYYS HE FINNALLY UPLOADED

Hey Enderman! Windows 10 HOME Edition Users cant install sandbox windows feature rn for some reason. Could u install windows 10 home and try to hack it to run sandbox? I think Windows home users had sandbox, but its just randomly wont work anymore. Love ur videos❤

4:38 Nightmare for any beginners trying to learn git

%0|%0 looks like a fork-bomb immediatly

windows 11 meets the league of terminal corruptions. 1. cmd|cmd. 2. @echo.%0^|%0›$^_^.c^md&$_›nul linux: i am immune to these dumb commands

He is back 😊 nice to see u back 🎉

I like the symbols on your desktop :) You even have the good old Zuma Deluxe, like me.