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<\/p>\nAnyone who has ever owned a Windows PC is afraid of the ‘Blue Screen of Death,’ also known as ‘BSoD’.<\/p>\n
The Blue Screen of Death is a Windows message that forces you to restart your computer to ‘fix’ the problem.<\/p>\n
Restarting your computer in this way will cause you to lose what you were working (for example, Word’s useful auto-save feature won’t work in this case).<\/p>\n
Cutting the power to your computer to restart like this will also damage your hard disk. Too many Blue Screens of Death and too many restarts, and you will need to buy a new hard disk.<\/p>\n
That’s a major hassle. Learning how to prevent the Blue Screen of Death in the first place should be a priority for every PC user.<\/p>\n
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What Triggers the Blue Screen of Death? Generally speaking, the BSoD is caused by two things:<\/p>\n
Windows relies on small data files called registry keys to run every single program.<\/p>\n
Over time, registry get duplicated, become corrupted, or become outdated.<\/p>\n
If Windows tries to run a software program with old, outdated, or faulty registry keys, the program will crash. In the more serious cases, you will encounter the Blue Screen of Death.<\/p>\n