Re: Microsoft is retiring the infamous 'blue screen of death'

On 2025-07-20 09:58, Shitty Indian Programmers wrote:
>
> Microsoft is ditching the notorious feature that appears on Windows
> computers in the coming months, “streamlining the unexpected restart
> experience” with a new black-colored screen, the company announced in a
> blog post.

That a PC automatically reboots after a BSOD, whatever the background 
colour, is one of the stupidest default Windows settings, which I always 
change, because it means that if the fault that has developed prevents 
the computer rebooting successfully and so causes another BSOD, the 
machine reboots indefinitely, making it very difficult to get to read 
the message, and so discover what is actually wrong.  The only way I've 
found is to video the process with a phone and then step through the 
resulting video until the BSOD is displayed, but things would be so much 
simpler if the default setting was to display the screen indefinitely 
until a user intervenes.

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