Save all your documents before doing this, if you want to try it; otherwise, it's notnna look so funny.
Assuming that you have Windows Powershell installed, do the following:
; change to the windows root drive
cd c:/
; Boooommm
more BOOTSECT.BAK
Your machine will immediately shutdown/turn off (less than 0.1 sec).
My dell laptop even makes a weird sound after turning off.
I don't know if this is a powershell bug or a Vista bug. Doing the same thing using the old cmd.exe doesnt crash the system.
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Does it work as a non-admin?
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I guess if your non-admin user account can open up a powershell console, then it will most likely work.
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keeron
Obsessive Geek
You should report this to the powershell team (easiest way: their blog - http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/)
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keeron wrote:
You should report this to the powershell team (easiest way: their blog - http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/)
Thanks keeron. I didn't know where to report it.
That bug sure scares the hell out of me. Does the PowerShell has kernel components to crash the system like that? I think it doesn't, which means that Windows Vista has got some serious issues.
By the way, I did some more investigations, and the crash occurs when trying to see the content of some binary files, even non critical binary files such as some .link files in the C:/Users/????/Links directory.
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