- 0 - Black
- 1 - Blue
- 2 - Green
- 3 - Cyan
- 4 - Red
- 5 - Magenta
- 6 - Yellow
- 7 - White
- 8 - Grey
- 9 - Bright blue
- A - Bright green
- B - Bright cyan
- C - Bright red
- D - Bright magenta
- E - Bright yellow
- F - Bright white
Sunday, January 04, 2009
How to change the Blue Screen of Death into another colour
We have all had a BSOD (Blue Screen Of Death) when something catastrophic has happened with Windows - which is usually when you try to do anything useful, but if you get tired of it being the standard Blue or if you have a visual imparement so the default settings are useless for you, here’s how to change it.
First open the SYSTEM.INI file found in the %systemroot% folder (usually C:\Windows) and locate the [386enh] section.
Add the following two entries if they are not present:
MessageBackColor=
MessageTextColor=
Each of those entries take a single hexadecimal digit defining the colour:
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