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- Program Name: Fake Error Dialog
- File Name: error.exe
- Program Type: Standard Executable
- Version: 1.0.0
- Purpose: This was written for a joke contest at work.
- Comments: When run, this program displays a fake hardware error
- dialog box with an OK button and a CANCEL (disabled)
- button. If you hit ok, it pops up a message box with
- a message that it will "reinitialize the hard drive" at
- the next reboot. It then closes, but not before sending
- the REBOOT command, immediatly rebooting the computer.
-
- Installation: To make the trick work, the best thing to do is copy the
- executable to windows' system directory and then dbl-click
- the REG file the corresponds to the version of windows you
- are currently running. The reg file adds the following
- entry: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\
- CurrentVersion\RunOnce]@="error.exe" so the the file is
- run immediatly on log in to the machine.
-
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- | Author: Bradley Buskey |
- | Email: bbuskey@sturm.org |
- | Website: http://www.sturm.org |
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