Goth aesthetic gone wild: a user's self-inflicted black screen of non-death in Windows 3.1’s

Microsoft senior software engineer Raymond Chen has explained what Windows is doing when you hold down the power button, and shared a story about the time a customer accidentally created a Goth Mode for Windows 3.1.There's a section in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (actually, page 116 of this writer's dog-eared copy of The Restaurant at the End of the Universe) in which Zaphod Beeblebrox observes of a ship's interior: "Every time you operate one of these weird black controls that are labeled in black on black background, a little black light lights up black to let you know you've done it."The same turned out to be true of a user who called Microsoft customer support to complain that after Windows 3.1 booted up, all that remained...

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