How to Cause a Windows Computer to Freeze

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This article will offer two simple ways to cause a Windows based computer to freeze (or "hang"). Neither will have any permanent effect on the computer but may require a restart be preformed to undo the action.

Steps

First Method

1. 1
   Open notepad or New Text Document

   
   
2. 2
   Type in:

   start %0 %0 
3. 3
   Save as anything.bat

Second Method.

1. 1
   Select all of the icons on your desktop. You can do this by clicking on desktop, then pressing Crtl+A. Or by highliting them all.
2. 2
   Press enter and watch the computer go mad by trying to open all of the icons.

Tips

• The script in the first method will open an infinite number of command prompts. Eventually the load will cause a system crash.
  • You will be able to just exit out of the windows, but if there is a sufficient number of windows, the computer will freeze.
• Second method: A computer with a lot of icons is more probable to freeze.

Warnings

• If you use this as a prank, make sure the person you are pranking has a sense of humor.
• A frozen system will need to be restarted, you will lose any unsaved work.

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