from http://www.segfault.org/story.phtml?mode=2&id=3b8e877a-07b50980 Windows Cheat Code Discovered Productivity went up by 600% in the offices of British Telecom today as one of the employees had discovered a cheat code for Microsoft Windows. After the discovery he immediately sent emails out to his office friends to tellt hem about it, and soon they were all cheating their way through it. The cheat enables 'God mode', which means the player becomes invulnerable to attacks from Windows' monsters. Monsters include the fatal exception, the illegal operation, and of course, the dreaded blue screen of death. The BT employee who discovered the cheat said, "It was extremely liberating to have illegal ops and BSODs coming at me from all directions, and knowing that they couldn't hurt me." He completed Windows in less than an hour, and was then able to get on with his work without interruption from the monsters. Microsoft suggests that gamers should have played through Windows at least once before using the cheats; otherwise you will lose much of the fun of trying to outwit the Windows monsters. Segfault has noted that under US law, the BT employee would've been liable to have produced a tool which enables the circumvention of a copyright protection system. It is for this reason that Segfault has declined to reproduce the cheat code on its pages. Microsoft has previously made available some of its lesser cheat codes. Here is one that lets you invoke your own monster. Set the registry entry HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\i8042prt\Parameters\CrashOnCtrlScroll to 1 and reboot. You can then liven up your gaming experiance by creating more monsters by pressing Right Ctrl + Scroll Lock twice (WinNT/2K/XP only). Here, for your edification, are pictures of some of the monsters (without the cheat code enabled) http://www.wackyb.co.nz/images/yahoovb.jpg http://www.wackyb.co.nz/images/yahooerrornxt.jpg http://www.wackyb.co.nz/images/yahooerror5.jpg http://www.wackyb.co.nz/images/yahooerror12.jpg http://www.wackyb.co.nz/images/debug_error.jpg http://www.daimyo.org/bsod/images/20010504-set2_8_464x214.jpg -- Jay Kline list at slushpupie.com http://www.slushpupie.com -- Q: How many Martians does it take to screw in a lightbulb? A: One and a half.
