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

On Sun, 7/20/2025 9:11 AM, Java Jive wrote:
> 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.
> 

Imagine if the STOP code was in 108 point font, so you could read it.

Oh, well. Same old, same old.

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  Paul