Changing the Colors of the Blue Screen of Death

In Category: Windows 98

You can change the normal colors of the background and text when you get a Blue Screen of Death. Edit the SYSTEM.INI file in the Windows directory In the [386Enh] add the entries: MessageTextColor=X MessageBackColor=X Where X is replace by the number for each of the following colors: Black = 0 Blue = 1 Green = 2 Cyan = 3 Red = 4 Magenta = 5 Yellow/Brown = 6 White = 7 Gray = 8 Bright Blue = 9 Bright Green = A Bright Cyan = B Bright Red = C Bright Magenta = D Bright Yellow = E Bright White = F