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A Windows-style crash on a station information screen at Paddington captured more than a few chuckles online — but beneath the joke is a clear, fixable lapse in how modern transport authorities deploy and manage digital signage. A reader photograph published by The Register shows an Elizabeth...

Windows 11’s recent update has been linked to a spate of SSD failures and performance anomalies during large file transfers for a subset of NVMe drives, prompting firmware updates from Western Digital, temporary compatibility holds from Microsoft, and a toolkit of registry and rollback...

If your Windows PC ever stops and shows a blue screen that reads KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED, it’s a sign the kernel encountered an exception it couldn’t resolve — and while it’s alarming, this BSOD is usually diagnosable and often fixable without a full reinstall. Background / Overview The...

Hi, just a couple of minutes ago I blue-screened. When I reset, I got the bugcheck "0x0000007f (0x0000000000000008, 0xffff9b006236be70, 0xffff818e275eeff0, 0xfffff8076809d9c3" in event viewer. The only other errors for today on it are about it failing to update Microsoft edge due to not being...

Public blue screens of death will be gone faster than you can snap a photo: Microsoft’s new Digital Signage Mode in Windows 11 will display any OS error or blue screen for a maximum of 15 seconds on non-interactive public displays, then automatically darken the screen until human input resumes...

The sudden appearance of a blue screen labeled Kernel Security Check Failure can turn a routine work session into an urgent troubleshooting exercise, but the stop code is usually Windows doing its job—halting the system because the kernel found corrupted or inconsistent data it cannot safely...

Microsoft is rolling a quiet but meaningful change into the Windows 11 Insider builds: after an unexpected restart or BSOD, Windows may now proactively offer to run a memory diagnostic at the next reboot to help determine whether RAM corruption played a role in the crash. Background Memory...

Microsoft is testing a new, consent-driven post‑crash diagnostic in Windows 11 that will offer users a one‑click way to schedule a quick RAM check after a Blue Screen or unexpected restart — scheduling the built‑in Windows Memory Diagnostic to run at the next reboot and report back if errors or...

Microsoft is quietly testing a built‑in, consent‑driven memory triage that will prompt Windows 11 users to run a quick RAM check after a Blue/Black/Green Screen of Death (BSOD) — a small but practical change that could shave hours off troubleshooting and help catch failing DIMMs earlier...

Microsoft is quietly testing a small but practical change to Windows 11 that will prompt users to run a quick RAM health check immediately after a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) — an opt-in, post‑crash suggestion that schedules the built‑in Windows Memory Diagnostic to run on the next reboot. The...

Microsoft is quietly rolling a practical reliability feature into the Windows 11 Insider preview that will prompt users to run a fast Windows Memory Diagnostic after an unexpected restart (bugcheck), scheduling a short scan at the next reboot to help triage memory corruption quickly and reduce...

Microsoft is piloting a new post‑crash diagnostic in Windows 11 that prompts users to run a quick memory scan after a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD), scheduling the built‑in Windows Memory Diagnostic to run on the next reboot and report results back to the desktop. Background Microsoft has begun...

The Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) — and its modern cousins, the black crash screen and green crash screen in Insider builds — remains Windows’ blunt instrument for stopping the system when a critical kernel or hardware fault occurs, but most blue‑screen incidents on Windows 11 can be diagnosed and...

Windows 11’s crash screen may look familiar, but the reasons behind the crash and the route to recovery are rarely simple — this feature walks through practical, verified BSOD (and the newer black crash‑screen) troubleshooting, consolidates the basic steps Guiding Tech outlines, and layers in...

Windows 11 machines that should shut down but instead loop into a restart are a maddening — yet fixable — class of problems, and the simplest remedies usually live in your power configuration and a few targeted system checks. Background Windows 11 introduced incremental changes to startup...

Microsoft quietly ended one of Windows’ most enduring visual warnings this summer: the Blue Screen of Death — the cobalt banner that for decades signaled catastrophic system failure — has been replaced with a streamlined black “unexpected restart” screen as part of Windows 11’s ongoing...

Microsoft’s switch from the familiar Blue Screen of Death to a minimalist black crash screen has drawn attention — and a fresh wave of questions from Windows 11 users who now confront the so‑called Black Screen of Death. This change is cosmetic in part, but it also comes bundled with new...

After nearly a decade of half-finished theming work, Windows 11’s Dark Mode finally begins to behave like a coherent system feature: preview builds now render many of the long‑standing white “flashbang” file‑operation dialogs in dark chrome, while Microsoft simultaneously adjusts the platform’s...

Microsoft’s Windows 11 24H2 rollout has already spawned two separate storage headaches: an earlier compatibility surge that produced looping Blue Screens of Death (BSODs) on certain Western Digital and SanDisk NVMe drives, and a later August 12, 2025 cumulative patch (KB5063878, OS Build...

Microsoft’s August cumulative for Windows 11 — KB5063878 (OS Build 26100.4946) — has been linked by independent testers and enthusiast communities to a reproducible and severe storage fault: under sustained large sequential writes (reports center around the 50 GB range), certain NVMe SSDs—and a...