This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Pretty sure they were copying the earlier Xscreensaver module. I was using an ironic BSOD screensaver on Irix in the late 90’s.
Also, sysinternals wasn't owned by Microsoft originally.
All of those Sysinternals projects are absolute must haves if you want to add much more power-user functionality into Windows for easy troubleshooting.
I actually found this because I was following a guide that needed Process Explorer to find out which damn program was catching my controller before DS4Windows was.
It was Firefox, specifically the Stable Diffusion WebUI for some reason.
That brings back memories!
Mark Russinovich has released some awesome Sysinternals tools, as well as hobby projects like this. I still use some of his Sysinternals tools to this day.
It is also common for Microsoft to post errata online. They've done this for many years if I recall correctly.
The weird part for me isn’t that the corrections are online. It’s that the whole book isn’t a searchable help page with all the errata patched away.
One if my coworkers installed this on his computer one morning before I got into the office. When I arrived I saw it in a boot loop, so I helpfully put in a network boot floppy and re-imaged the hard drive. Good times.
So iconic, you can't think of Windows without remembering bugs and crashes!
