Monday, July 5th 2021
Microsoft Replaces the Blue Screen of Death with the Black Screen of Death
Microsoft has updated the Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) in the latest Windows 11 preview build to now be the Black Screen of Death. The Blue Screen of Death has been included since Windows 1.0 was released in 1985 and has received various changes over the years adding error codes, the sad face, and most recently in 2016 QR codes. The new Black Screen of Death was likely introduced to blend better with modern systems and is functionally identical to the previous version. Microsoft had previously introduced the Green Screen of Death for Windows Insider Preview Builds so if you are running the Windows 11 preview and want to enable the updated BSOD you can set the DisplayPreReleaseColor Variable to 0 in the registry editor (HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\CrashControl) and reboot.
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Martin Nobel
35 Comments on Microsoft Replaces the Blue Screen of Death with the Black Screen of Death
It looked like this:
I like stable vs speed
I posted it above. The horror.
Fun factoid... the trap screen code in OS/2 was written by... Microsoft!
Reason for the BSoDs was a "Memory Management Error". The ridiculous thing is that I didn't stop to address the issue after the first BSoD. I waited until I got dozens of them. Sometimes the BSoDs would occur immediately on system boot.
When I finally got around to doing some research, I learned that the cause was my RAM sticks being in the wrong slots. :slap:
Oh, how naive I was back then. :rolleyes:
We don't have time to finish the interface overhaul we promised for Windows 8's launch nine years ago, but we have changed the background colour of the crash screen.
Blue color background was atleast relaxing in a ( there's a solution ) kinda way, and dosnt make you panic, the black background make it look ominous, and scary
Then: I can build my own computer with transistors and wires from my melted copper dishes.
No: Om, noes! The crash screen scares me.
:D :D :D
MS had to do something different blue screen is also normal win-10 welcome screen.... lol