Somewhat stupid thread

[wpswart006]

Say you have a batch file that does nothing except opening another instance of itself.

Say it is located on drive C:\, the code wil look like this :

@echo off
start C:\Systemcrash.bat
exit

The exit being optional, depending on whether or not you want your computer down in 10 seconds.

How would you go about terminating such a dastardly process?

 

[LazyLion]

That batch file will report an error. It won't be able to start another instance of itself.

 

[wpswart006]

It does, believe me it starts. I've tried it out of boredom, and it starts alright.
It would make a pretty mean screensaver if you could exit it in a human manner.

 

[wpswart006]

Say you have a batch file that does nothing except opening another instance of itself.

Say it is located on drive C:\, the code wil look like this :

@echo off
start C:\ Systemcrash.bat
exit

The exit being optional, depending on whether or not you want your computer down in 10 seconds.

How would you go about terminating such a dastardly process?

It seems that a frantic bashing of control and c will stop it if you're lucky.

 

[LazyLion]

It does, believe me it starts. I've tried it out of boredom, and it starts alright.
It would make a pretty mean screensaver if you could exit it in a human manner.

how does it start when there is a space between the prompt and the filename? That would return a "File not Found" Error. Unless your file name starts with a blank space... which is impossible in Windows.

C:\ Systemcrash.bat

 

[Anthro]

Control *SHIF T Esc, Right Click Explorer, terminate
Then terminate the batch

 

[wpswart006]

how does it start when there is a space between the prompt and the filename? That would return a "File not Found" Error. Unless your file name starts with a blank space... which is impossible in Windows.

Sorry, typo in code.

 

[PilgrimToHyperion]

@wpswart006 - you should be banned for your "best joke ever". Got me - @#$$%$!$^

 

[Conradl]

If you really want to bring a system down, then two starts i.e.

@echo off
start C:\Systemcrash.bat
start C:\Systemcrash.bat

You will be amazed at how quickly a quad Xeon runs itself into the ground

 

[mass09]

I know I shouldn't have tested it but I did. Works extremely well, had to do a manual reset! Luckily I didn't add it to startup items

How 'bout this:

@echo off
start C:\Systemcrash.bat
start C:\Systemcrash.bat
start C:\Systemcrash.bat
start C:\Systemcrash.bat
start C:\Systemcrash.bat

 

[The_Unbeliever]

Note : If you've got a batch file called system crash hard.cmd and you'll want to call it up from a batch file, the syntax to do so is :

start "c:\system crash hard.cmd"



Mmmm... mebbe I can put this into some poor sap's login script?

IIRC the start command got a /minimized switch so

start "c:\system crash hard.cmd" /minimized

should start the whole shebang up minimized...

 

[mass09]

Is it possible to change the process priority of the .bat via a command? Change it to Realtime...

 

[Conradl]

start /realtime

 

[Park@82]

is it April yet?

 

[wpswart006]

@wpswart006 - you should be banned for your "best joke ever". Got me - @#$$%$!$^

Hehe

 

[Skywalker42]

@wpswart006 - you should be banned for your "best joke ever". Got me - @#$$%$!$^

Agreed. Got me too...