Blue Screen Maker

Pick a style and fill in the blanks. The Windows 9x style reproduces the classic "A fatal exception has occurred" screen with its grey title chip; the NT STOP style mimics the wall of hex a kernel panic used to print. The randomize button rolls plausible-looking addresses, because 0028:C0011E36 just feels right.

Fullscreen turns your display into the screen of dread (press any key or click to escape; unlike in 1998, it always works). Download PNG renders the screen to a 1024×768 image; ideal wallpaper for a colleague's unlocked laptop.

Everything happens locally in your browser. No actual exceptions were harmed in the making of this tool.

You can embed this util on your own site as a widget. Adding ?embed=1 to the URL loads a compact version with just the tool itself; no header, menu, or documentation. Paste this snippet into your HTML:

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