Epic Windows XP Maneuver
Created on: June 28th, 2006
Epic Windows XP Maneuver
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July 5th, 2006
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July 5th, 2006
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this is not a freaking virus! dear god, just press ctrl+alt+del, find the processes lsass.exe and click it and then click end process and see what you get. SAME THING.
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UNSTOPPABLE!
July 5th, 2006
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i feel bad for the people who think this is an actual fix and not just a joke.
July 5th, 2006
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this would have been nice when the sasser virus was around 5'd
July 5th, 2006
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truly epic. nice work.
July 5th, 2006
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epic maneuver indeed.
July 5th, 2006
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i liked it and it was awsome love the sound effects and i can't belive that is xp
July 5th, 2006
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lol, i remember doing that
July 5th, 2006
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omg so sweet! The maneuver surly is epic, but isnt a 5.
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IT DIDNT WORK
July 5th, 2006
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LOL OWNT
July 5th, 2006
(1)
Very cool trick. Nice music too. -1 because it lacks humor.
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cheap, you can see where he forgot to put the 3 back on the clock time. f*cking douche, that sh*t doesn't work, there's a program called nokill that ends that so it doesn't shut down.
July 6th, 2006
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who uses that resolution? XD
July 6th, 2006
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dope
July 6th, 2006
(-1)
Boring
July 6th, 2006
(-1)
Why the hell is this STILL on the top 15? It sucked the first, second, thord, fourth, and fifth times I saw it. On the sixth time, it's time to one it.
July 6th, 2006
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Clever
July 6th, 2006
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bangvang, he said for a smaller gif. ... idiot.
July 6th, 2006
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haha el oh el
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rofl owned
July 6th, 2006
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Peter Griffin's voice: "Eee yaya haha, Windows."
July 6th, 2006
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NEWXP, lolz
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STOP COMMENTING IF YOU ARE RETARDED AND DONT KNOW WHAT THE f*ck YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT
July 6th, 2006
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whoa that's pretty cool. I got that lsass problem once. I fixed it pretty easily, but that would've been good as well.
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TIME PARADOX
July 6th, 2006
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Alternatively, start, run, shutdown -a (-a is abort)
July 6th, 2006
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Didn't read the whole desc, sorry.
July 6th, 2006
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Good ytmnd, great sound, but I just can't see why it's 3rd rated :| Therefore slight downvote.
July 6th, 2006
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A cooler YTMND would have been aborting a shutdown by opening Microsoft Word, when your computer has already started the shutdown process and cmd can't run.
July 6th, 2006
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I am the Alpha and the Omega.
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how is this possibly still in top 15??
July 6th, 2006
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the music is awesome
July 6th, 2006
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Pure awesome.
July 6th, 2006
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Owned
July 6th, 2006
(-1)
Or you could just go into command prompt and type "shutdown.exe -a" You know cuz thats totally hard
July 6th, 2006
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hillarious
July 6th, 2006
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i only have one thing to say: you are jesus
July 6th, 2006
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LOL Windows fails...nice audio edit too XD
July 6th, 2006
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Dude, that was badass. Love the music, as well.
July 6th, 2006
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-a
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BRILLIANT
July 6th, 2006
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Nice. lol
July 6th, 2006
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Very clever, I like your style :P
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!!!!!! WOOO
July 7th, 2006
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lol, time wizard
July 7th, 2006
(1)
Rule for people voting one. If you dont get something but everyone loves it, either play along or dont vote. all the cool kids are doing it.
July 7th, 2006
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lol
July 7th, 2006
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OH MY GOD THIS IS f*ckING AWESOME
July 7th, 2006
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WHY IS THIS STILL TOP15. STOP VIEWHACKING.
July 7th, 2006
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pwnt
July 7th, 2006
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This kept happening to me when using a unregistered version of Windows, wish I had known this. Awesome!
July 7th, 2006
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State-of-mind cant break my stride!
July 7th, 2006
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Wow. this site just saved my computer. I got a horrible virus that was gonna shut me down, but I remembered this site and pulled the epic XP maneuver, giving me enough to time to go into the registry and delete it (it would normally permanately shut me down so I had no opportunity to do that). 5 for saving me from buying a new computer!
July 7th, 2006
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i haven't plugged this site ANYWHERE outside ytmnd. It's still getting pageviews because it's still in the top 5 rated. Which baffles me.
July 7th, 2006
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Bill Gates will crush you
July 7th, 2006
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Wait, so you hacked someone's computer?
July 7th, 2006
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-1 cuz im a retard and i dont like ur desktop -1 cuz im a retard and i dont know that windows xp can look different from the default settings -1 for spite cuz i wish i had made this. Overall, meh.
July 7th, 2006
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kewl
July 7th, 2006
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der der.
July 7th, 2006
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Bones to that sh*t, I'm impressed.
July 8th, 2006
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If you were computer savvy at all, you would never get the Sasser worm. Therefore, 3'd
July 8th, 2006
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It's still top viewd? Jesus.
July 8th, 2006
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ethereal =)
July 8th, 2006
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Ozzman, that's what makes it an EPIC MANEUVER.
July 8th, 2006
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Awesome
July 8th, 2006
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To aleviate some degree of confusion amongst the members who don't think this is really a WINDOWS XP system. It is possible this user edited the display settings to get the windows 9x look, so quit being presumptious.
July 8th, 2006
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LOL CMD POWER! shutdown -s -t 120 ROFLZ!
July 8th, 2006
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Hhahhahahahahah it works!
July 8th, 2006
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ROFL!
July 9th, 2006
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Ah LSASS.EXE. Oh this brings back memories.
July 9th, 2006
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gah bad windows xp theme. how could u stand to look at that lol
July 9th, 2006
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Was okay a week okay but now boring. 3
July 9th, 2006
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July 9th, 2006
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hehe - never knew that
July 9th, 2006
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lol wtf its possible? :P
July 9th, 2006
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Somone want to explain to me how this is STILL on the top 15?
July 9th, 2006
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eh, i don't find it epic or funny
July 9th, 2006
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nicely done
July 9th, 2006
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lol your living in the past with your prehistoric xp
July 9th, 2006
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1, because you use AVG.
July 9th, 2006
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It is EPIC. and it works too.
July 9th, 2006
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Why isnt this on the top 5 anymore? I dont see it in HOF
July 9th, 2006
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you ruined it with text
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Text = Covered image. -3.
July 9th, 2006
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minus one star for the urelated and uneeded text that you added
July 9th, 2006
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LOL
July 10th, 2006
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Excellent. PS: That's a Windows XP theme for anyone who wants to complain. And don't downgrade because of his desktop, the manuever in a horrid environment was the legendary part! Don't Diss Dirty Desktops.
July 10th, 2006
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changed vote from 3 to 5 since the song probably took some time to make
July 10th, 2006
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July 10th, 2006
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This is infact Windows XP. It may look older because the visual style is disabled, and also because the GIF filetype only supports 256 colors.
July 10th, 2006
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awesome
July 12th, 2006
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I have one upped this epic maneuver: Start > Run > CMD > shutdown -a
July 12th, 2006
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^ As many others already have...
July 13th, 2006
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WIN
July 13th, 2006
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Nice!
July 14th, 2006
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I'm gonna go try that...
July 14th, 2006
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The epic fad? You "get" it. Not many other people do. 5'd.
July 15th, 2006
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Hahahaha
July 15th, 2006
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Sheer pwnage right there. Also, the song rox.
July 16th, 2006
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Heh, Ethereal. Great little capture tool.
July 16th, 2006
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Can you feel the sunshine?
July 17th, 2006
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to fix it just go to run type cmd then type shutdown -a to abort it
July 19th, 2006
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Haha, funny trick. The real way to get around that problem is to go into the command line and type "shutdown -a" but still nice.
July 20th, 2006
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this is windows xp in classic version yes?
July 20th, 2006
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Does that really wrkzor?
July 21st, 2006
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Sweet.
July 21st, 2006
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Never thought of that.
July 22nd, 2006
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lol ill have to try that some time...
July 22nd, 2006
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I'm definitely trying that sometime.
July 22nd, 2006
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Epic Windows music for the win!
July 24th, 2006
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HOLY sh*t I HATED THAT VIRUS! f*ckING OWN3D!
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you're fxing brilliant
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5'ed for the music. also cocks
July 25th, 2006
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you fail, please try again ^_^
July 25th, 2006
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It actually works! Try it now- end all instances of svchost.exe in taskmanager, then set the system clock back by a year. f*cking pwnz.
July 25th, 2006
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Lol, now my computer thinks I've never run any programs... >.
July 26th, 2006
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whats wrong with your windows xp, why's it all like frigin windows 2.0?5 stars,tho
July 28th, 2006
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"if you are going to comment, please make sure first that you are not stupid and wrong" I would have 5'd just for the description. However, this YTMND pwns just as hard.
July 28th, 2006
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This site is great because it is funny, and remembering this site, I pulled off the same manuever. A funny and practical YTMND.
July 28th, 2006
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THAT owned!
July 28th, 2006
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punch the keys for gods sake
July 29th, 2006
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Nice!
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Wow, I Did not know you could do that, used to be able to do that with Adobe until they brought in that dam Activation thing.
July 29th, 2006
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LOL!
July 29th, 2006
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next time this happens i'm gonna be like "GENTLEMEN.. BEHOLD!!"
July 29th, 2006
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lmao. that was the best epic maneuver on a computer i have ever seen.
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LMAO!! XD HACKED TO THE EXTREME!
July 30th, 2006
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Fav'd for 1337 h4x0ring skillz
July 30th, 2006
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Why doesn't the clock in the taskbar change when you change it?
August 2nd, 2006
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lol, I dunno what happened, but something similar popped up to this extent, and attempted this trick. It worked!
August 2nd, 2006
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heh, owned.
August 4th, 2006
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Sasser worm. Oh man. XD That's awesome.
August 5th, 2006
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boring
August 6th, 2006
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wow thats a sh*t load of comments....
August 6th, 2006
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Done this myself :D
August 7th, 2006
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Heh, it works.
August 7th, 2006
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I got one of those messages once, couldn't use the computer for like 6 months because it was so slow
August 8th, 2006
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Unnecessarily EPIC
August 8th, 2006
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Stugene, the clock in the taskbar does not change because only the date has been modified, not the time.
August 8th, 2006
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how big is your monitor???
August 10th, 2006
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good
August 11th, 2006
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wow really great!!!
August 11th, 2006
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Win
August 16th, 2006
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marry me
August 16th, 2006
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LOL! You should really use the soundbite from the other sites, though, and until then 4.
August 19th, 2006
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agoxide, to answer ur question its really 648 x 480 pixels.
August 21st, 2006
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You can go into DOS and type; "shutdown -a" (-a for abort) and that should stop it.
August 22nd, 2006
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Actually that wont work since NT AUTHORITY is higher than ADMIN.
August 22nd, 2006
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Nice. I tried it and it doesn't actually work.
August 23rd, 2006
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It DOES work! I pulled it on a computer I was using, and 5 minutes later it just started f*cking up and completely froze!
August 23rd, 2006
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Epic + XP + handy virus workaround = you get my 5.
August 23rd, 2006
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Beautiful.
August 25th, 2006
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Ha ha, pwn3d.
August 26th, 2006
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Excellent! Love the Windows XP sounds to go with it
August 26th, 2006
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Windows XP tried to do this to me earlier while using Ad Aware, so I pulled the epic manuever. Works like a charm. Thank you.
August 28th, 2006
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ohh god in hevan how'd this get back on the top 15?
August 28th, 2006
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Random 1.
August 28th, 2006
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I've done this before. The message appears when you terminate an "essential" Windows process. Easily fixable, just restart the computer-- though that is quite epically awesome.
August 28th, 2006
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epic indeed!
August 28th, 2006
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j00 = 1337 h4x0r
August 28th, 2006
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Truly Epic
August 28th, 2006
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you > windows
August 28th, 2006
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5'd because a few weeks after seeing this for the first time i actually had to DO this to get rid of a file without shutdown. thanks for the protip
August 29th, 2006
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The one way to tell that its XP and NOT 2000...Windows 2000 doesnt have a "WINDOWS" folder under C:/ it has "WINNT" XP has the "Windows" folder... thanks
August 30th, 2006
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OMG! One of my favorite YTMND's of all time... awesome use of windows sounds for music XD
September 1st, 2006
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you win, keep up the good work. ;D
September 1st, 2006
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i tried it for something it didnt work not a system shutdown but something forgot it was a while ago when i first saw this
September 2nd, 2006
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!!!! Epic fads rocks!! XDDD If I knew about this trick earlier.... ;PPP
September 2nd, 2006
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hahaha, you did not just do that.
September 2nd, 2006
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damn cool....
September 2nd, 2006
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i have never ever had that happen to me....what the hell did you do :P
September 2nd, 2006
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September 3rd, 2006
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awesome, i tried it and it works!
September 6th, 2006
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bbq'd lobster
September 6th, 2006
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Hey ps3fool, I'll bet you 5 stars that he didn't use Gadwin Printscreen and he DID use MWSnap 3!!! HUUUH!!!
September 6th, 2006
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Brilliant maneuver.
September 7th, 2006
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I did this, and it f*cked up my pc :D
September 7th, 2006
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Lewl
September 9th, 2006
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I can vouche for this. I had to format my computer and re install xp. I hadnt even made it 30 min of using it after install was complete. i was windows updating to get SP2 cause I only had 1. I was browsing random sites and didnt download squat then BOOM shutdown window came up. Then hmmm'ed the epic song out loud and quickly changed the date. gg it worked. didnt even get a chance to get SP2 LAME. Gotta format again
September 10th, 2006
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windows is owned
September 10th, 2006
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This happened to me once, but i accidently set the year forward instead of backwards =/ lol
September 12th, 2006
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lolsasser
September 15th, 2006
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i never thought it would get rated this high
September 18th, 2006
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show me how get rid of it all together
September 21st, 2006
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Awesome! You learn something new every day...
September 23rd, 2006
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I totally just got that error and this was the first thing I thought of. I tried it and it worked! I'm here laughing my *ss off and my roommate looked over was like "Holy sh*t! How'd you do that?"
September 24th, 2006
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HAHA! THAT JUST HAPPENED TO ME! I got that error message, and I remembered this YTMND, so I went into the calendar and put it back two year! More than 700 days to wait now!
September 24th, 2006
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^^^ 'Node', it IS an actual fix. I did it just now and it worked!
September 25th, 2006
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Your firefox icon looks sick.
September 29th, 2006
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Nice! But if you had administrator access, you could just use shutdown -a.
October 3rd, 2006
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A jorb well done.
October 10th, 2006
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Fruity Loops!@
October 14th, 2006
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lol exit Svchost and it does that.
October 14th, 2006
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awesomerz!
October 18th, 2006
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Oh god I remeber having to do that when I got a bad virus a few years back.. took like 3 weeks fixing the registry to get my PC to work X_x...
October 18th, 2006
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lol, the music owns!
October 19th, 2006
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Thanks for teaching me how to perform this epic maneuver, I had to do it a week ago. Fav'd for saving what was undoubtedly a critical forum post where I questioned another forumgoer's sexuality.
November 2nd, 2006
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Take that XP!
November 4th, 2006
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LOL!
November 10th, 2006
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I CHANGED IT TO NOVEMBER 2005 AND IT WORKED.
November 12th, 2006
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LOL aint that the truth...
November 15th, 2006
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Took me a while to get it. But nice.
November 16th, 2006
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Whoa, did you experience this with a bootleg copy of Windows XP yourself? Or did you make/find it?
November 25th, 2006
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5'd for the idea, 5'd for the cool music rmx => fav'd
November 26th, 2006
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Thats amazing hahaha
November 30th, 2006
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Lol, was that shutdown command a hacker? random windows crash?
December 3rd, 2006
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I had this happen to me today. First thing I thought of was this ytmnd and it helped =P
December 9th, 2006
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Yeah, this site helped me too. It's amazing that Sasser infected so many people, it's riduculously easy to get rid of if you know what to do.
December 11th, 2006
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HAHA Very Clever!
December 16th, 2006
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Lol, would that actually work? Don't think so, but that would be hilarious. and by the way, that looks like Windows 98, I know it's XP, you can change the look of it.
December 27th, 2006
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holy sh*t you pushed it to the limits, 5d and fav'd for that
January 5th, 2007
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January 5th, 2007
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LMFAO
January 6th, 2007
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NO IT IS NOT WINDOWS XP. IF YOU THINK IT IS XP YOU ARE WRONG. nice ytmnd though
January 7th, 2007
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sh*t, some1 told me bout this and i didnt believe them.lol
January 19th, 2007
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Yeah windows suck now.
January 23rd, 2007
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Freakin' awesome
January 28th, 2007
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Epic
January 28th, 2007
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lol window errors!
January 29th, 2007
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The theme part's where it's just the "bings" is not powerful enough. Maybe add in something else an octave lower just in that one part. Still, this is probably one of my favorite ytmnd's so...five.
February 3rd, 2007
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lol
February 4th, 2007
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HOLY CRAP! That actually WORKS? xDD 5'd!
February 5th, 2007
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lol
February 6th, 2007
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Rofl!
February 7th, 2007
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This is awesome.
February 14th, 2007
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I made one of those! But then my CD drive stopped working, so i couldn't send it to my friend!
February 17th, 2007
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Win
February 20th, 2007
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Windows got served here.
February 21st, 2007
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I saw this a long time ago, but this morning in an attempt to end spyware crap I did the same thing, and because I saw this, I actually knew what to do so I had sufficient time to save things. Education is a value of YTMND!
February 24th, 2007
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FOR THE WIN!!
February 26th, 2007
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March 4th, 2007
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EPIC!
March 18th, 2007
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oh my god HES HACKING THE SYSTEM!
March 19th, 2007
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EPIC WIN!
March 23rd, 2007
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You did it wrong! Make it five years AFTER it shuts down!
March 23rd, 2007
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epic
March 25th, 2007
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Nice
April 11th, 2007
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5'd... not just for the maneuver, but for the recreation of the "epic" song, Windows style.
April 17th, 2007
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This truly is an epic "Maneuver"
May 6th, 2007
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Very nice!
May 12th, 2007
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Well played.
May 30th, 2007
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lol, windows sucks
June 10th, 2007
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Actually had to use this today...
July 4th, 2007
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Big ups. Way to pwn windows.
September 21st, 2007
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Im scraping my jaw from the floor
September 21st, 2007
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Lol it Really does that also.....
September 25th, 2007
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great
October 25th, 2007
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Wanted: A computer to go back in time with me.
November 9th, 2007
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ECSOA
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