Perform a Windows Vista Suicide by Pressing Just 2 Keys

Topics Windows Vista, Windows XP on July 19th, 2007

Vista can be completely killed by pressing a simple of just two keys. All you need to crush Microsoft’s latest operating system and put the much-applauded Wow at an end is two fingers. This issue has been reported of Microsoft, and the Redmond company has failed to issue any official comment at the time of this article. The immediate question which comes to mind is if the problem is a security vulnerability or a simple bug.

Either way, you too can watch Vista die in front of your eyes. To make matters worse, the key is one of the most utilized keyboard shortcuts in . Pressing the key together with “E” will start in Vista. Keeping the two keys pressed will open a large volume of . Want to crush Vista? Nothing could be simpler. Just keep the two keys pressed for more than 20 – 30 seconds.

The operating system will begin to behave aberrantly and will continue to open instances flooding the desktop. There is no way to restore Vista to its normal self, outside of a . With cascading on your desktop, you will soon find that Task Manager cannot be accessed. The same is valid for additional processes. You will have to restart the operating system in order to restore Vista.

“It took millions of dollars to make Vista secure and stable. While I am happy that Vista is so much stable than XP; there is a bullet proof way to crash WindowsVista. A simple service which loops a thousand times while sending Key + E can be written within ten minutes. Microsoft may have spent millions of dollars for security and stability; it takes two fingers or a simple service to crash Vista down. No matter how bullet proof Vista claims to be, two keys to crash the operating system is a bullet proof approach as well,” revealed the author of the crash method on TechTicles.

In its present form, the bug seems to create nothing more than a Denial of Service condition. It remains to be seen if it can be exploited remotely or if it permits code execution. Still, I’d put my money on a bug, rather than on a security vulnerability.

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8 Responses to “Perform a Windows Vista Suicide by Pressing Just 2 Keys”

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  2. Comment by paul

    this is in xp too. not a vista problem.

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  5. Comment by lolo13

    useless…

  6. Comment by Anon

    Want a way to kill Linux?

    dd if=/dev/zero of=/ bscount=512

    Point: There’s multiple ways to skin a cat AND a dog as well.

  7. Comment by Scarleth

    This is really a no-brainer.. You can do this with virtually all Operating Systems, all your doing is opening a massive ammount of instances for a program, that should crash anything.

  8. Comment by sykogee

    This doesnt work on Vista SP1
    I performed the key press for about 1 min - once the system caught up (which did take a couple of mins)I was able to do a Ctrl - Alt - Del and close the explorer.exe process from task manager.

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