Force Internet Explorer BSOD

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October 14, 2006 | Computers | 3 Comments

Just ran across a fun little tidbit about Internet Explorer on Windows.

You can force a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) by typing "about:mozilla" in the address bar.

If you’re running XP SP2 that won’t work, you’ll have to do "es://mshtml.dll/about.moz"

Just the thing to torture others in your office.

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Have you tested that? It has an aroma of urban legend about it to me.

beebs, October 15, 2006 7:12 am | permalink
My Favorite: using a one-line javascript

Works both on IE6 and IE7.

Tom, October 15, 2006 12:44 pm | permalink
Yeah, Guess I shoulda tested first… my VPC install of XP SP2 didn’t respond. I got a blue screen, but not a BSOD.

Shawn Parker, October 15, 2006 1:12 pm | permalink

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