Blue Death Screen to Scare your Friends

It’s the April Fool Day! Prepare for the big day and arm yourself with the tools needed to fool your friends. My favorite is the Bluescreen Screensaver, which mocks the most feared death blue screen which you usually see whenever something nasty happens on your system. After a while, the screensaver starts rolling the Windows bootscreen, giving an awful feeling to your friends.

Download the Bluescreen Screensaver from here (our mirror - 64KB). Extract the archive and copy bluescreen.scr to c:/Windows/system32 (Assuming that you have installed Windows XP in c:/). Now set Bluescreen as your screensaver. Optionally, you can also enable fake disk activity from the settings to add some extra realism.

Ryan shares a similar Vista Upgrade Prank tool which pretends as the user is upgrading to Windows Vista. After few minute, the installation is done and the appears to boot Vista. Finally, you get to see the desktop which looks somewhat similar to Mac OS X. Read more here.

Happy April Fools Day!