How do I screw up windows?

[BrianH1]

System folder "delete"

 

[Atheus]

Related - is there still a way to actually destroy hardware through software? I remember there used to be code which would send hard disks into a destructive cycle, eat floppy disks, etc.

 

[TheoPetro]

i should probaly stay away from this thread. it gives me ideas to do to my roomates comp.......what a dick.

 

[jdport]

Why are you messing with IT that way? If your IT department is anything like any of the places I've worked they have enough on their plates without idiots going and intentionally f'ing up their PC's to make more work for IT. Should be a good way to get your ass fired.. heh. If I ever found somebody was doing that kind of BS in my office they'd be pretty sorry. IT can make people's work lives considerably less pleasant if provoked.

 

[Markbnj]

Now lets see how IT will do. I called them and told them the computer needs an urgent full restore from the nightly backups they do.

What are you, a SOX auditor? . I'm sure the guys in IT will get a good laugh out of this when it's all over.

Or they will hack your cel phone and post your naked cam pics all over teh intarweb.

 

[skace]

Originally posted by: Martin
:laugh:

Anyway, I deleted about half the registry. After it was done, I couldn't do anything. Double clikcing on icons did nothing, but double-clicking on My Computer brought up the Map Network Drive wizard

anyway, I restarted and now I can't get into windows at all.

Now lets see how IT will do. I called them and told them the computer needs an urgent full restore from the nightly backups they do.

Aw you pita Restoring servers from backup is a pain in the rear. Unless your site has a really good setup that allows something similar to ghosting back onto the drive without having to load a fresh os first.

I'd rather just rebuild the thing and restore the data. Or do a system state restore. Hmmm, I wonder if they backup system states (registry / etc).

 

[Aquila76]

Originally posted by: Markbnj

Now lets see how IT will do. I called them and told them the computer needs an urgent full restore from the nightly backups they do.

What are you, a SOX auditor? . I'm sure the guys in IT will get a good laugh out of this when it's all over.

Or they will hack your cel phone and post your naked cam pics all over teh intarweb.

I just spit my coffee; fortunately it was back into my mug. :laugh:

 

[BladeVenom]

Originally posted by: Atheus
Related - is there still a way to actually destroy hardware through software? I remember there used to be code which would send hard disks into a destructive cycle, eat floppy disks, etc.

How about a low level format, boot sector virus, or bios virus?

 

[gorcorps]

Originally posted by: Snapster

Originally posted by: Looney

Originally posted by: Krazy4Real
put a shortcut in the startup menu that points to a batch file. In the batch file put in the command to restart the computer. The computer will loop endlessly.

What's the command to restart the computer?

SHUTDOWN -r -t 01 should do

Would there be any way to recover from this? Would safe mode still work and you could fix everything again?

 

[potato28]

Originally posted by: Atheus
Related - is there still a way to actually destroy hardware through software? I remember there used to be code which would send hard disks into a destructive cycle, eat floppy disks, etc.

Its called overclocking!

 

[Martin]

The reason I'm doing this is because we don't trust IT. We develop internal tools on our own servers, which have been growing in importance. If anything happens to our stuff, we'll be blamed, not IT, so we have have to make sure that we can recover if a real problem occurs.

We've been trying to get space on the enterprise SQL and web servers, but IT moves so slowly, you'd think they're government workers

Anyway, as it turns out, the solution they have is a sort of software program running on top of windows, so while they can restore the data, they cannot remotely restore Windows and the applications/settings. So I have to first fix teh computer, and only then can they restore some stuff.

After this excercise is over, we'll have to see if they offer some type of remote ghost for our real servers, so they can back them up regularly and if the need arose, simply ghost them back to the last time teh backup was performed.

 

[bleuiko]

Originally posted by: SunnyD
Install windows.

lol

 

[Jeffito123]

Originally posted by: bleuiko

Originally posted by: SunnyD
Install windows.

lol

 

[Metron]

Originally posted by: bleuiko

Originally posted by: SunnyD
Install windows ME.

lol

Fixed!

 

[Genx87]

Visit many many many pr0n sites

 

[stash]

If you kill the lsass process on a Windows box, it will instantly crash.