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The easiest way to Kill a Windows PC - With Script / Batch File?
I sold 8 computers to a company, and they are refusing to pay, I'm trying to stop Windows from working / loading - I will only have limited time / access to those machines - less than 30 seconds - over the internet & I want to use my time wisely. These are all networked machines...
I wish it was as easy as calling the police, or doing it through legal means (I tried & tried) - I sold those to a company who managed to go bankrupt, keeping the computers that did not belong to them. Then they started up again as a different company, with receipts for buying the computers from the defunct company - same location, same people, same faces, same scam & I'm the big loser...
@Psi-Co - The problem is that the company has no assets as such, because people like that, know how to play the system & get away with it - You are correct in that what I'm trying to do is illegal, and spiteful. But it will make me feel a whole lot better...
9 Answers
- Anonymous10 years agoFavourite answer
I would do it. Make sure you know what you're doing and you don't get caught.
- sewrobbLv 710 years ago
Reminds me of a story a friend told me about a friend of his.
Might be worth bearing it mind.
He set up a network and supplied all the equipment for a company.
They paid regularly every month but got a bit twitchy towards the end.
Final payment was about £5,000 and none was forth coming. So he just
waited for the panic phone call. Sure enough 30 days past the payment
date he got it. The whole system had shut down.
He went in and demanded £10,000 in cash to turn the whole system back on.
After a couple of hours they coughed up!
What he did was program the whole system to shut down 30 days after they
should have paid. As he told them if you had paid your bill on time I would
have given the code to cancel that bit of programming because no one
could crack the instructions he put in!
Moral of the story is he was five grand better off for an hours work!
Source(s): Experienced1 - just "JR"Lv 710 years ago
Don't waste your time: these scams are a loophole in UK: st-up a company, buy a lot, sell a lot of promises and get deposits, go bankrupt, start again with the assets and no debts.
You have no legal way of recovering anything.
If you attack them (hacking), they may be able to find you, and YOU will be in trouble. In that case, you may be on for "Computer Crime", and the penalties are serious! (I worked for the MOD/Police in Uk for these kind of crimes).
You have lost money: that's a lesson you will learn. I did too! Same style, just a bit more money (300k in 2001). Your ONLY recourse is illegal.
Our society, today...
- green meklarLv 710 years ago
I've heard that the following in the command console will do it:
deltree C:*.* /y
Do NOT enter the above command on your own machine, or any machine you care about. It is not a toy. It can and will turn your computer into an expensive paperweight. And it cannot be reversed. I am not responsible for any catastrophic damage caused by misuse of that command. Consider yourself fairly warned.
This goes for anyone else reading this answer as well.
- ?Lv 45 years ago
i've got not got the respond, yet you are able to run cmd, form "del /?" without rates. that would instruct you. do no longer write the sq. brackets like interior the examples there. Open notepad and turn filetype to 'all varieties' and make contact with the document command.bat form in as you will in cmd
- Anonymous10 years ago
Call the police and have them reclaim your property...
Edit:-
Then you can claim money from the bankruptcy fund. What your attempting to do is illegal, and more to the point spiteful. Is disabling them going to get you your money?
Chalk it up to experience don't give credit.
- ?Lv 510 years ago
Delete system 32 with a notepad script, I am not saying more from there.
I ain't responsible if you do so.
- Anonymous10 years ago
Just hack them!