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Have you ever wanted to show off your keyboard ninja skills by taking down Windows with just
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a couple of keystrokes? All you have to do is add one registry key, and then you can impress kind you would use for storing a sizeable
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T his isn’t a bug, it’s a “feature” in Windows that is designed to let users trigger a crash dump for home stadium.
testing purposes. T here’s even a whole Microsoft KB article on the subject.

T o enable this feature, open up regedit and then browse down to one of these keys,
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again.

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