The dreaded "Blue Screen of Death" !

Windows systems are known for crashing for any number of reasons and in a number of ways. Sometimes these crashes are minor and can easily be overcome simply by closing a non responding application or by rebooting the system. However, others are more serious and can result in the blue screen of death which brings the entire system to its knees.

Microsoft calls these types of crashes "Stop errors" because the operating system stops responding. When a Stop error occurs, the normal windows screen is replaced by a DOS-like blue screen with a cryptic error message that is sometimes followed by an error code number. This screen is commonly referred to as the "Blue Screen Of Death", or BSOD for short. 

 A sample Blue Screen of Death

Although Stop errors can be caused by both hardware or software malfunctions, the most typical cause is a software (most comonly faulty or incorrect drivers) malfunction. Resolving these problems should stop you receiving the blue screen of death.

In the case of a software malfunction the first thing is to clean the PC's registry with Registry Easy then optimise the memory as many BSOD errors can be caused by badley optimised memory. Then once you have the system running at its optimum run Driver Robot to ensure you have the best drivers for you system.

In the case of a hardware malfunction the most likely cause is faulty components like memory, cpu, or cpu fan, but sometimes it may be caused by recently installed hardware. If you have optimised your PC and the problem still occurs, then remove any recently installed software/hardware (use the uninstall section in Registry Easy). Then re-Optimise your PC before re-installing the software/hardware. Ensure you are using the latest drivers by using Driver Robot as this program will check that each driver is the latest one available for your particular piece of hardware without you having to go to every different manufacturers website.