The Blue Screen of Death "is an infamous error screen more closely associated with Microsoft Windows. Some nerd humor sites collect examples of the famous Blue Screen of Death, as error screens that appear on the monitor, which are designed to display information for arrival and departure airports. As a general rule, we do not like to view the Blue Screen of Death in the wild, as it is an indicator of a critical system error.

The most distinctive feature of the Blue Screen of Death is, as you might imagine, the blue color of the background used. Anyone who has seen a Blue Screen of Death can instantly evoke the unforgettable striking blue background, white lettering that compensates used to display information about what caused the system failure that led to the Blue Screen of Death. This error occurs only when the computer is forced to shut down to protect itself from a critical error, and is usually accompanied by loss of data, unless you happened to save right before the error occurred.

A computer can automatically close after displaying the Blue Screen of Death, or the user may be forced to shut it down manually. After the arrest is complete, restart your computer normally and the computer can run diagnostics to determine what caused the fatal error and recover as much data as possible. If the Blue Screen of Death appears multiple times, can be an indicator of a very serious problem, and you may need to reinstall your operating system or go into so-called "Safe Mode" to address the problem. Safe mode has a stripped down version of the operating system that allows the user to solve problems.

For people who are not computer programmers, the information displayed on the blue screen of death may seem confusing. In reality, information is extremely useful because it matches the error number, the parameters of the 'error, and offers an assortment of other information that could be used to find the problem and prevent it from happening again. Programmers can use Blue Screen of Death information to quickly identify the root cause of the problem, if it's a hardware problem or a problem with the software kernel.

Many Windows users have seen the Blue Screen of Death at one point or another, particularly people who have used unstable builds of Windows or heavily modified their operating systems. Users of other operating systems, Windows users sometimes pretend with the specter of the Blue Screen of Death, suggesting that their operating systems are much more stable and less prone to errors.