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The original Blue Screen of Death (here seen in the Italian edition of Windows NT 3.51) first appeared in Windows NT 3.1. The first Blue Screen of Death appeared in Windows NT 3.1 [5] (the first version of the Windows NT family, released in 1993), and later appeared on all Windows operating systems released afterwards.
And a similar screen preceded the Windows NT Blue Screen of Death, Plummer said, further adding to the confusion. “There was a blue screen in the Windows of the older days of the ‘80s,” he said.
On the PlayStation 2, the red screen of death bears similarities to the regular startup, such as the pitched-down menu screen audio and its subsequent ambient noises, alongside a faint whistle. After the normal startup, a red screen will appear with a message saying "Please insert a PlayStation or PlayStation 2 format
Keystroke logging. Keystroke logging, often referred to as keylogging or keyboard capturing, is the action of recording (logging) the keys struck on a keyboard, [1][2] typically covertly, so that a person using the keyboard is unaware that their actions are being monitored. Data can then be retrieved by the person operating the logging program.
A QWERTY keyboard layout with the position of Control, Alt and Delete keys highlighted. Control-Alt-Delete (often abbreviated to Ctrl+Alt+Del and sometimes called the "three-finger salute" or "Security Keys") [1] [2] is a computer keyboard command on IBM PC compatible computers, invoked by pressing the Delete key while holding the Control and Alt keys: Ctrl+Alt+Delete.
Crash (computing) A kernel panic displayed on an iMac. This is the most common form of an operating system failure in Unix-like systems. In computing, a crash, or system crash, occurs when a computer program such as a software application or an operating system stops functioning properly and exits. On some operating systems or individual ...
In Windows 3.x, the black screen of death is the behavior that occurred when a DOS-based application failed to execute properly. It was often known to occur in connection with attempting certain operations while networking drivers were resident in memory. (Commonly, but not exclusively, it was seen while the Novell NetWare client for DOS, NETX ...
Scroll Lock (⤓ or ⇳) is a lock key (typically with an associated status light) on most IBM -compatible computer keyboards. Depending on the operating system, it may be used for different purposes, and applications may assign functions to the key or change their behavior depending on its toggling state. [1][2] The key is not frequently used ...