this is crazy, it's real!

[knsaber]

wow i can't believe this is a real screenshot i took!
i was looking around tweaks for my windows 2000 thru the program Xteq System X-Setup... and i bumped into this option!!!

screenshot

haha this is real! but there's no way i want to try this out!
what's the point of this???

 

[SammyBoy]

hahahhaa,

why would they possibly bother incorporating this into 2k

how could this possibly be useful?

 

[shiner]

Sometimes it is useful to cause a bug check so that you can insure that a memory dump is being written.

 

[Sugadaddy]

LOL, nice. I guess win2k is so stable you have to crash it yourself...

 

[Sundog]

Not many people would have found that!

 

[knsaber]

whoever gets to try this out and gets it to "crash" i'll give you a cookie

 

[Rogue]

Yes, that is real and yes, it is useful. If you want to see what happens when you "crash" a server to see what is impacted by it, it is useful. There are numerous other things that can be used for also to test and evaluate systems, policies and programs in a mass system deployment.

Here's the Microsoft Knowledge Base article on it:

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q273/6/36.ASP?LN=EN-US&SD=gn&FR=0&qry=MANUALLY_INITIATED_CRASH&rnk=1&src=DHCS_MSPSS_gn_SRCH&SPR=WIN2000

 

[UT4EVER]

in addition to this...it can be a great tool to use to get that new PC you've always wanted but ur Boss is too cheap to give ya

 

[Rogue]

Here's the actual registry key for it too:

Manual Crash Registry Key