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Why does Windows still have the BSOD on Ctrl+Scroll+Scroll "feature"?

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Mar 15, 20266861 views
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Background information While Windows XP came out I heard about a testing feature that existed to manually cause a BSOD (Blue Screen Of Death). I also heard this was supposed to be removed in XP Service Pack 2. It didn't get removed. It's also in Vista, Windows 7, and all later Windows versions. To …

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HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\i8042prt\Parameters

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Fix for: Why does Windows still have the BSOD on Ctrl+Scroll+Scroll "feature"?

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It's there to allow a break into the Kernel Debugger or generate a kernel-mode dump file. Typically an expert would want to do this when the OS looks locked up and won't even respond to CTRL+ALT+DELETE in order to get the dump file and investigate i…

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