Followed these steps on How to force a Blue Screen Of Death (BSOD) in Windows 11/10.
I manually pressed these keys Right Ctrl + Scroll Lock + Scroll Lock to successfully cause a BSOD
However, ran a C program (as admin) to simulate the keys but it never causes a BSOD?
#include <Windows.h>
#include <stdio.h>
int main() {
HKEY hKey;
DWORD dwValue = 1;
RegOpenKeyExA(HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, "SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Services\\i8042prt\\Parameters", 0, KEY_SET_VALUE, &hKey);
RegSetValueExA(hKey, "CrashOnCtrlScroll", 0, REG_DWORD, (const BYTE*)&dwValue, sizeof(dwValue));
RegCloseKey(hKey);
DWORD dwDisposition;
RegCreateKeyExA(HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, "SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Services\\kbdhid\\Parameters", 0, NULL, REG_OPTION_NON_VOLATILE, KEY_SET_VALUE, NULL, &hKey, &dwDisposition);
RegSetValueExA(hKey, "CrashOnCtrlScroll", 0, REG_DWORD, (const BYTE*)&dwValue, sizeof(dwValue));
RegCloseKey(hKey);
// Simulate pressing the RIGHT Ctrl key down
keybd_event(VK_RCONTROL, MapVirtualKey(VK_RCONTROL, 0), 0, 0);
// First Scroll Lock down/up keypress
keybd_event(VK_SCROLL, MapVirtualKey(VK_SCROLL, 0), 0, 0);
keybd_event(VK_SCROLL, MapVirtualKey(VK_SCROLL, 0), KEYEVENTF_KEYUP, 0);
Sleep(200);
// Second Scroll Lock down/up keypress
keybd_event(VK_SCROLL, MapVirtualKey(VK_SCROLL, 0), 0, 0);
keybd_event(VK_SCROLL, MapVirtualKey(VK_SCROLL, 0), KEYEVENTF_KEYUP, 0);
// Simulate releasing the RIGHT Ctrl key
keybd_event(VK_RCONTROL, MapVirtualKey(VK_RCONTROL, 0), KEYEVENTF_KEYUP, 0);
printf("BSOD!\n");
return 0;
}
Question
I've tried simulating the key presses to be more human like by introducing a delay, but no luck!?
