1)Open Task manager.
2)Terminate Csrss.exe
3)Enjoy your PC being BSoD-ed!

(I guess this is not funny...)

OLD stuff (Even works with Vista)

More fun to crash the GDI and then DWM by opening up a few hundred instances of Calculator via Batch Script

XP would never let you, lol

Appropriately maybe it would let you With this I got an interesting message on Windows 8, if you try to terminate system critical processes, Windows 8 will warn you that if you terminate the process, the system will shut down. Then you have to check a box saying "Abandon all my work and shutdown" and press Shut down. It'll BSOD immediately.

Old stuff, and why would you want to deliberately make an operating system shut down with a STOP error due to a critical process being dead? I don't get why the hell you'd do that.



Now that is awesome.

Here is a picture:

Lulz, it's almost a joke because you get a BSoD after.

Windows 7 has the same message and also BSODs afterwards. XP doesn't allow you to end the process.

This not working on my SP1... access denied... sure it's a fix to prevent some bad use from virus & co...

it's a dumb thing to do...

I don't even get why they allow you to kill such an important process...

Run task manager as administrator.

@Andy: You sure are right, maybe that was left for testing purposes or just shows that Windows admin system can be severely abused because it lets you do everything.

Heh.. I used to do this to show my grandma how a crashed system looks like.

My guess would be that they wouldn't want some virus to get around security infect one of those files and be an unstoppable process or something of the sort as it would be nigh impossible to remove by standard means. As to why they allow ending them in the normal task manager, no clue.

It is because a virus may assume the same name as a system process. Try renaming e.g. Notepad to csrss.exe in XP and see what I'm thinking.

I once made a program that terminated csrss.exe and made it run on startup on my teacher's computer. he was really frustrated!

This asm code (compiled in fasm and ran as admin) forces a bugcheck in NT 5.1 (xp) and up:

I dont get what it serves too.

Kinda Mean but really cool.

hahahahaahha now i can play with this to my pal..

KeBugCheck

1) CMD as admin
2) taskkill /PID csrss.exe

This doesn't shutdown PC.

1) CTRL+ALT+DEL and click Task Manager / Or click right on the taskbar and click Task Manager / CTRL+SHIFT+DEL
2) Click on Processes tab.
3) Click "Show processes from all users". This will enable administrator Task Manager that let's you kill system processes.
4) Click on "csrss.exe" or "winlogon.exe" and press End Task.
5) You will get this dialog:

6) Check "Abandon unsaved data and shutdown" and click Shut down.
7) You will get BSOD shortly thereafter.
For Windows 7 SP0/SP1.