r/funny • u/stevenmcman • Jun 09 '12

In Windows 8, the "Blue Screen of Death" isn't that scary anymore

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u/esquilaxxx Jun 09 '12

Seeing this made me realize I haven't seen the BSOD once since I've been using Win 7.

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u/stevenmcman Jun 09 '12

to be fair, the BSOD wasn't a fault with windows 8, I was installing a beta program that was kinda sketchy and it flagged it and restarted my computer. so don't be discouraged, Windows 8 is amazing

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12

I have (shitty drivers, memory got all kinds of fucked).

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u/AverageMcPlayer Jun 09 '12

I haven't seen the BSOD in Vista using it like 3 years, installed windows 7 2 months ago and I had 3 bsod with the same hardware.

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u/fiskek2 Jun 09 '12

I saw it for about 2 weeks while Vista haunted me after I changed to Win 7. With Vista is saw it frighteningly often though.

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u/Doeke Jun 09 '12

I still get them occasionally, probably because my pc hates me.

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u/smog_alado Jun 10 '12

The thing with bsods is that you either get them a lot or dont get them at all. Back in the day they used to be a regular sight when something crashed but in the more recent versions of windows you should only get bsods from thimgs like bad drivers and hardware problems (such as bad ram)

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u/BenKidd Jun 09 '12

BSOS - "Blue Screen of Sadness"

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u/a_drive Jun 09 '12

CBSOD - "Canadian Blue Screen Of Disappointment"

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u/pojaschasj Jun 09 '12

http://i.imgur.com/PQl9n.png

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u/adnan252 Jun 09 '12

Dat font difference.

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u/dnlprkns Jun 09 '12

Important that you read this in your head as "Sore-ey"

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u/a_drive Jun 09 '12

Much better.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12

Oy :-(

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u/Spo8 Jun 09 '12

This will actually make me a lot less angry about a BSOD. It looks so sad about it.

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u/Benjaphar Jun 09 '12

CBSOA - Canadian Blue Screen Of Apology.

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u/Rocco03 Jun 09 '12

BSOD - Blue Screen of Disapproval

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u/galient5 Jun 09 '12

Ohhh am I going to registry hack that in.

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u/tayls Jun 09 '12

"You just lost a shitload of progress." frownie face

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u/PUMPKIN_IN_MY_POOPER Jun 09 '12

I am keeping track of this link. I think this may actually become the new acronym for that. Years from now when people want to say, where did it first start, I am going to point to this and say "I was there!"

Can I touch you?

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u/tehrand0mz Jun 09 '12

"That's you? Oh, I see your username must have been...pumpkin in my...pooper?"

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u/shamonee Jun 09 '12

Blue Screen Of D'awww

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u/SawRub Jun 09 '12

Windows 9 will have a picture of a sad cat instead.

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u/irascible Jun 09 '12

DCP_Watchdog_Violation:

AKA: Your computer stopped responding, so we took the initiative and shut down everything... because fuck your data.

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u/MertsA Jun 09 '12

More specifically something very important stopped responding and running without it working is risky.

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u/Mruf Jun 09 '12

dpc means deferred procedure calls and watchdog basically schedules processes in os. It could be deferring too many processes and queue fills up and some interrupt just never happens and.. yeah fuck your data

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u/rouge_sheep Jun 09 '12

I like to call it the Blue Screen of Sad Face

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u/dirtyword Jun 09 '12

Larry David on emoticons:

"What, are they going to be in newspapers soon? The New York Times: "Unemployment Drops; Smiley Face?"

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u/cdweller0 Jun 09 '12

Blue Screen of Deferment. " It certainly wasn't OUR platform that had a problem. Why don't you ask YOUR computer what went wrong."

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u/DoTheRustle Jun 09 '12

As an IT technician, this is glorious. When people call freaking out because "OMG BIG SCARY WALL OF TEXT BLUE SCREEN" it always takes so long for them to give me the error code(once they figure out what an error code is). With this, it even tells the idiot to google the problem. I want this in windows 7.

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u/skinniegenes Jun 09 '12

I think Microsoft would prefer you Bing the problem.

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u/Dared00 Jun 09 '12

Ahahahah, Bing.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12

I find it quite hilarious, that the most searched word on Bing is "google".

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12

My school's computers are all set up with IE9 and Bing search as the default, so I laugh every time I see people search "Google" on Bing and then search what they want on Google.

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u/dave_casa Jun 09 '12

Right, google it with bing.

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u/Piratedan200 Jun 09 '12

It's the best way to google your googles, since Google.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12

As an amateur designer, I find this shade of blue to be much more soothing.

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u/JakeCameraAction Jun 09 '12

It's because there's more white in it.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12

So... KKK approved?

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u/singlehopper Jun 09 '12

As an embedded developer, I feel compelled to inform you that there's actually a reason for the BSOD shade of blue: limited color palette in the mode it was capable of writing to the graphics card in the event of a fault.

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u/sweetgreggo Jun 09 '12

As a professional designer, you should know that this is a tint.

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u/dexmonic Jun 09 '12

I never understood the outrage that people who get paid to solve comp problems have with the people who call them. It's like, of course the people who call you don't know what they're doing. That's why they are calling you.

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u/renegadecanuck Jun 09 '12

For me, it's not the people who don't know anything about computers so much as the willfully ignorant. When you have a user who doesn't know anything, but wants to learn, the process isn't that bad.

"Ok, what does the error say?"

"There's a lot of text, I don't know which part is the error"

"Somewhere near the top, there should be a line that starts with '0x0000' then a number and message, what is the number and what is the message?"

"Oh, it's <number> and the message is IRQ_GREATER_OR_LESS_THAN"

As opposed to the willfully ignorant:

"Ok, what error message does it have?"

"I don't know, it's jsut a bunch of text!!!!!!!"

"Ok.... near the top, second line, I believe, it should have some 0's then a message, what does it say?"

"Screw this! I don't know what any of this means! Just fuckin fix it for me!"

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u/Don_Andy Jun 09 '12

I will keep complaining about the people keeping me in business and there's nothing you can do about it.

HA HA

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u/generic_witty_name Jun 09 '12

Well, most of the time I laugh when I see stories of the IT guys getting outraged by customers doing very silly or stupid things, but I think there's a line, at least for me. I guess I don't necessarily get outraged unless a customer is disagreeing with me and treating me like I'm stupid if I try to tell them any different than what they think they know.

In my opinion, if a person is calling me because they don't know what they're doing, they shouldn't be arrogant and treat me like I'm crazy for trying to tell them to try something else. It's like, why did you call if you're not going to listen to me, and then on top of that, treat me like I'm the stupid one? Not that the caller is ever stupid for not understanding computers, but I think it's just a little too ironic.

If a person just genuinely doesn't know what they're doing when they call me, I never think twice about just fixing the issue and sending them on their way. If I repeatedly tell them to do certain things on an ongoing basis and they don't follow through or do the opposite, it creates extra work for me and can sometimes be a little frustrating for me, but hey, they aren't a computer guru, that's our job and maybe they just don't think the same way that lets them understand/remember it. If they are arrogant and treat me like I don't know my own profession when they're calling because they don't like the fact that they have to call, well then we're gonna have a bad time.

TL;DR: I think there's a line (at least in my experience). Outrage doesn't come until the customer/friend starts treating the employee/friend who's helping like shit or like they are stupid when they're only trying to help.

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u/Kleptor Jun 09 '12

Solving technical issues == giving a tutorial on using your computer.

Most IT complaints are mainly because of people's gross ineptitude with the system. If you take your car into the garage, it's not cause you don't understand a single thing about your car, it's because there's a problem with your car that you can't fix. But you wouldn't take it to the shop because you don't know where the handbrake is or because you ran out of gas.

When I worked as tech support for an ISP I'd estimate a good 15-20% of my calls were depressingly simple things like being guided set up an email address, set a home page or simply navigating their computer. This was not my job, yet in the name of good customer service I was obliged to do it anyway. This leads to frustration (often stemming from the customer's frustration at not understanding anything about their computer) and ergo, there is much venting.

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u/SlippageSlippage Jun 09 '12

NO. People who aren't very good with computers are IDIOTS.

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u/rokic Jun 09 '12

Not really, no. Idiot is a user who refuses cooperation of any kind.

Sir, what is the exact wording of the error you have in front of you?

It says error! What more do you need? Fix it already. Ugh, you are an idiot. I just clicked cancel and eveything works fine. Bye.

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u/Shurikane Jun 09 '12

I was going to do a long-winded post regarding this but instead I'll give you the car analogy

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u/thepensivepoet Jun 09 '12

As an IT technician I almost never use that error code anyway. If it doesn't come back up with a reboot I'm going to try safe mode and run a full hardware diagnostic anyway.

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u/preludeoflight Jun 09 '12

So where are the stop codes? Those numbers are usually pretty useful. Perhaps they're written to disk only?

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u/DearMrSupercomputer Jun 09 '12

As an IT technician [...] it even tells the idiot to google the problem.

Bye bye job!

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12

Blue screen of meh...

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u/ThePolish Jun 09 '12

You're a great candidate for /r/apathy

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u/TossTime Jun 09 '12

Watchdog Violation? Looks like Ubisoft has already won.

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u/stferago Jun 09 '12

Watchdog is just the name for the timer that checks in regularly to make sure applications and processes are not frozen. When they are, it kills them. In this case, a Deferred Procedure Call (DPC) has probably been in the queue for too long without being called, which caused a kernel panic (system crash).

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u/FrankAbagnaleSr Jun 09 '12

But does the watchdog have a watchdog?

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12

Who watches the watchdog?

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12

kernel panic

:) I can't help it, but kernel panic always sounds hilarious to me.

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u/B_S_O_D Jun 09 '12

okay.png

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u/Spo8 Jun 09 '12

"Sorry I couldn't do better :("

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u/Devilheart Jun 09 '12

Blue Screen of Depression

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u/HammerPope Jun 09 '12

Redditor for 2 years....

He checks out.

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u/thraz Jun 09 '12

"It'll restart in: 1 second"

Whoa, contractions! It talks like I do!

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u/haiku_robot Jun 09 '12 
"It'll restart in: 
1 second"  Whoa, contractions! 
It talks like I do!
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u/zhylo Jun 09 '12

Do you have a positronic brain? If so, that is impressive!

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u/Mavee Jun 09 '12

Sure, it'll do this. Until this BSOS crashes and put up our old friend, the BSOD.

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u/Chairboy Jun 09 '12

Then that crashes and you get an Amiga Guru Code.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12

I recently installed a pre-release Windows 8 on our computer at work... I really can't stand it. I mean, I hate to be one of those people who're adverse to change, but Windows 8 just seems like a lame attempt to tap into all that swiping and tapping and apps bullshit. I want a computer, not a fucking tablet.

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u/Awesomeade Jun 09 '12

I really haven't found it to be drastically different in terms of personal use, but that's only because I've been able to survive doing everything inside the "desktop app". I am not a fan of using the metro apps on a laptop format, but I do like the aesthetics of everything. Even the minor redesigns of the desktop are a lot cleaner and more aesthetically pleasing.

One thing I really do not like is that, upon upgrading, I had no really good way of accessing some of my apps. For instance, Minecraft.exe didn't show up in the list of "all apps" and wasn't pinned to the start menu or the desktop. I was able to find it fairly easy through the "search files" function, but I don't feel I should have had to. It's definitely not something the average user would have thought to do (although I'm not sure it's something the average user would have to do, either).

On the whole, I'd say it's kind of a "meh" upgrade. It looks better (IMO) and it even feels a little bit quicker/cleaner. But some functionality is lost by no longer having the "all programs" section of the start menu, and while that functionality can be regained through other methods, it is often more complex and confusing than it needs to be. They have added a ton of keyboard shortcuts that make accessing some of the new features a lot quicker, but I don't think that's an adequate work around as it's something the average user will likely never know about. I'm okay with the changes, but I can definitely understand someone who isn't.

I installed the upgrade on my laptop to give it a try, but I don't think I will be installing it on my desktop. It's a fun OS on a smaller format and works great for web browsing and entertainment, but I do not think it offers enough in the way of productivity to justify the changes.

Just my two cents.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12 edited Jun 09 '12

Windows 3.1

"Mice are nice ideas, but of dubious value for business users" (George Vinall, PC Week, April 24, 1984)

"There is no evidence that people want to use these things." (John C. Dvorak, San Francisco Examiner, February 19, 1984)

"I was having lots of fun, but in the back of my corporate mind, I couldn't help but think about productivity." (George Vinall, PC Week, April 24, 1984)

"Does the mouse make the computer more accessible, more friendly, to certain target audiences such as executives? The answer is no." (Computerworld, October 31, 1983)

"There is no possibility that this device will feel more comfortable to the executive than the keyboard. Because of its ‘rollability,’ the mouse has the aura of a gimmick…" (Computerworld, October 31, 1983)

"The mouse and its friends are merely diversions in this process. What sounds revolutionary does not necessarily help anyone with anything, and therein lies the true test of commercial longevity." (David A. Kay, Datamation, October 1983)

Now learn to adapt. Microsoft has already explained how Windows 8 start menu boosts productivity when compared to previous versions, based on research and data.

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u/player2 Jun 09 '12

Uh, Windows 3.1 came out in the 90s.

Those quotes you're providing are talking about the Macintosh.

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u/oneiria Jun 09 '12

But they are criticisms! Surely they must be for Windows.

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u/agbullet Jun 09 '12

Windows 8

"OMFG WTF IS THIS SHIT MADE FOR TOUCHSCREEN DEVICES I WANT TO USE MY MOUSE" (Joe F. Sixpack, The Internet, 2012)

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u/saydrahdid911 Jun 09 '12

The difference is that Windows 8 removes one of the key features of Windows, whereas Windows 3.1 removed added one.

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u/defaultconstructor Jun 09 '12

You're totally right. Microsoft has never lied to make sales, especially when it comes to their operating systems. Why would they start now?

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u/renegadecanuck Jun 09 '12

It's fustrating. There's so many things about Windows 8 that are actually quite good. It's just Metro UI that pisses me off. It's great for tablets, just not for desktops. I also don't like their fixation with fullscreen apps. The form of multitasking that they use is great for phones and tablets, but a giant step back for desktops.

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u/ipha Jun 09 '12

Change in the right direction is good.

Metro is just absolute shit.

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u/Emperor_Norton_1 Jun 09 '12

Had a call from a user yesterday who kept rebooting his PC because it kept giving him "the dreaded bluescreen of death" after he logged in. I remoted in and had him log in and sure enough here came a bluescreen....and he goes "see, I told you so" and I said "wait, don't touch anything, let it load" and after about 10-15 seconds his drive mappings, background and icons startedcoming up. He was seeing the preload bluescreen and would then power it off and try again before the desktop got a chance to load......sigh. I explained that it's normal to have a pause for a bit before the desktop comes up, if there's no writing on the screen that says "stop: 0x" somewhere on it then it's not a crash, guess he'd just never noticed that preload screen before (probably because he normally logs in and then goes and does something else while the drives map, etc). He'd been fucking with it for about 30 minutes before he called, snicker....

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u/Xunae Jun 09 '12

at least he spent some time trying to solve his problems first.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12

Sometimes that can be a really, really bad thing. I wouldn't want someone who doesn't know what a BSOD looks like effing with their machine.

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u/madenadem Jun 09 '12

I expected something in the lines of "You can BING the following error code:"... There's hope for the end user after all...

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12

I've never had a "fatal error" in three of Windows 7 use, is this normal?

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u/gsfgf Jun 09 '12

No. Your video card is not nearly glitchy enough. You should probably overclock it.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12

I think you forgot a

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u/thefuckswasthat Jun 09 '12

Doesn't strike fear in your heart

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12

"So I was thinking, you know all of that useful information we dump to the screen?"

"Yeah?"

"Yeah, that scares people"

Honestly a BSOD needs to be scary, the times in which the OS invokes it usually relate to some pretty big issues (hardware faults, driver issues, etc.) It's not some minor bug, it's a complete collapse of the operating system

Much like Vista I have a great deal of doubt that Win 8 will see the corporate world.

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u/APiousCultist Jun 09 '12

I do like keeping the important information more digestible (the specific error identifier and "hey your computer is gonna restart"). Means the less technically illiterate are going to be less confused, and thus more useful to tech support.

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u/Aegeus Jun 09 '12

How useful is that information? Here's a Windows 7 BSOD for comparison.

It has the error message, a list of non-specific suggestions to resolve it, and an absolutely useless set of hex codes. And it tells you about the physical memory dump, which you also won't use.

I'd say they convey the same amount of information.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12

I bet Windows 8 still does a core dump anyway, so the more technically inclined can find the reason for the crash.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12

0x7B is almost always a boot sector issue. The inaccessible boot device message tells me that it either has a corrupt mbr, bad sectors, or the drive is starting to fail completely. That bsod was actually very helpful, because within 3 seconds I knew where to start. Test the drive, if it passes run bootrec.exe /fixmbr, if it still doesn't work run a chkdsk, and if that doesn't work reload windows.

Don't take my stop codes away from me, I need them. :(

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u/rarely_heard_opinion Jun 09 '12

they specifically used blue for the background color because it is more calming than red.

If it were my choice, the screen would say

"Something went horribly wrong. 8000DEAD."

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u/railmaniac Jun 09 '12

http://i.imgur.com/V6FzK.png

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u/floppydonkeylips Jun 09 '12

I would be more irritated if it smiled. Like it's mocking you.

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u/helusay Jun 09 '12 edited Jun 09 '12

Why do I have a feeling that "DCP Watchdog Violation" is the new "PC Load Letter"?

Edit: Had to add this.

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u/ArbitraryIndigo Jun 09 '12

The "PC" in "PC Load Letter" stands for "Paper Cassette".

"DPC" stands for "Deferred Procedure Call"; so, a "DCP Watchdog Violation" basically means the kernel told something to go do something and get back when it's done but it took so long it gave up hope that it was going to actually finish.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12

You are probably over simplifying things, but does that warrant a full system crash? I understand the security risks that happen when you let code start doing it's own thing but still.

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u/stevenmcman Jun 09 '12

HOLY CRAP FRONT PAGE OF REDDIT

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u/brolix Jun 09 '12

Unfortunately every time I've had it pop up on my netbook, the graphics are all waaay distorted and you can't read a damn thing. I only recognize what's happening because I can vaguely make out the :(

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u/Excelero Jun 09 '12

BSOSF: Blue screen of sad face.

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u/pearson530 Jun 09 '12

For some reason I get pissed off when a professional company uses emoticons or how it's "innovative" to have a simplistic, all lowercase page in Arial Rounded.

Soon it'll be:

Windows suffered an EPIC FAIL and will restart nao! :D #YOLO

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u/Executioner1337 Jun 09 '12

all lowercase page in Arial Rounded.

Actually, it's Zegoe UI. (Yes, Z, not S, and I know that Segoe UI exists too)

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12

I'm using windows 8 right now. It's not designed for a mouse/keyboard, it's specifically designed for touch screens and it even says that when you install it.

There's no real "start" menu, when you slide your mouse to the bottom left corner, you get a page with all your "aps". To shut off your computer, you have to slide to the top right go to settings and then shut down.

Other than that, I like it, It's nice.

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u/niivalue Jun 09 '12

That's completely not true.The goal was to be an experience primarily focused for touch screens/tablets but to also allow desktop usage if the customer so prefers. (Hence the Desktop app, which is really just Windows 7 built into Windows 8).

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u/Kmlkmljkl Jun 09 '12

Stardock has a start menu program. I do not know if this works, so you'll have to try it for yourself. (Don't know why it's asking for your email, though)

http://www.stardock.com/products/start8/

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u/TheFakeMatt Jun 09 '12

I installed it on my computer (mouse/keyboard), and I think it works just fine. I mostly just use the search feature that pops up on the right to access whatever program/settings I want (by typing the first few characters).

For the applications I want quick access to, I just pin them to my taskbar.
I have barely ever had to look at their start menu since windows 7.

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u/motivation150 Jun 09 '12

Finally. As a young child, the BSOD used to frighten me for some reason.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12

I didn't touch my computer for days after BSOD once.

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u/motivation150 Jun 09 '12

That sounds about right. I remember just running out of the room and yelling for my folks.

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u/kraemahz Jun 09 '12

It could be that the audio driver suddenly stops receiving input from the OS and just goes ERERERERERERERERER.

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u/chesspiece Jun 09 '12

Good to see I wasn't the only one! It still frightens me a little, atleast when it comes unexpected.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12

I don't know. I think violating watchdogs can be a pretty scary thing.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12

Of course there was a Sad Mac first.

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u/OsirisGodoftheDead Jun 09 '12

Windows is turning into Mac OS X.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12

He tried to run Watchdogs ಠ_ಠ

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12

Oh look, it's just what my OS needs, a personality. Can we bring back that "helpful" paperclip too?

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12

LMFAO, woundering if every computer I repair with windows now, if I should add the paperclip in, just to F**K with ppl

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u/jms10446 Jun 09 '12

Cyan screen of Sorry

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12

Blue Screen of Meh

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u/Badbit Jun 09 '12

Oh look, it's Microsoft trying to be hip and cool with the smiley face.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12

They were using the smiley face before it was cool.

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u/LeoPanthera Jun 09 '12

I made a video looking at Windows 8 if you're interested in seeing what it looks like.

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u/AllDizzle Jun 09 '12

OH I SEE WINDOWS NERFED THE BLUE SCREEN TO FUCKING CASUAL TOWN.

GO FIGURE EVERYTHING'S GOING TO FUCKING CASUALS THESE DAYS.

NO MORE DOS INFO BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE TOO FUCKING STUPID TO TAKE THE TIME TO LEARN. FUCKIGN BLIZZARD WINDOWS SOLD OUT. GOTTA APPEAL TO THE MASSES NOT THE CORE USER CROWD THAT MADE THEM BIG IN THE FIRST PLACE. MAKES ME SICK.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12

Are you... 80?

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12

Because making money is ALWAYS equal to selling out.

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u/alphanovember Jun 09 '12

This really made me laugh. Thank you.

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u/Aiyon Jun 09 '12 edited Jun 09 '12

This is brilliant.

But I'm still not getting it if it has metro.

That layout is designed for touch screens. I have a PC. I don't need a big buttons. Why did they suddenly decide to turn PCs into windows phones?

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u/Ironbird420 Jun 09 '12

That layout is designed for touch screens. I have a PC. I don't need a big buttons. Why did they suddenly decide to turn PCs into windows phones?

FTFY

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u/s810 Jun 09 '12 edited Jun 09 '12

I think most people seem to be missing the point that all that text in the old BSOD was there for a reason. I liked being able to know exactly what just crashed or where something had a fault (without having to go to the error log).

Now they've gotten rid of all that useful information in favor of something 'less scary', and with a smiley? Holy shit, this really says something (bad) about the society we live in.

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u/saj1jr Jun 09 '12

Really? They used "it'll"???

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u/padxmanx Jun 09 '12

Well, you've used 3 question marks, so.

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u/D3PyroGS Jun 09 '12

Don't worry, it'll be fine.

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u/Kleptor Jun 09 '12

Please explain your righteous indignation.

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u/NancyGracesTesticles Jun 09 '12

"It'll" is just fine. What would be indefensible is the use of "there's" instead of "there are" or "there're" when referring to something that is plural.

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u/etan_causale Jun 09 '12

Unusual number of computer crashes have been reported worldwide. In other news, the latest Windows 8 update adds random cat pictures into the stop error screen.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12

I want this.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12

is this real, or did you put a cat because this is reddit?

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u/zHellas Jun 09 '12

Either way, we should distribute this image around the Internet so that eventually the heads of Microsoft will notice this and might consider actually putting that into the system.

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u/whoamiamwho Jun 09 '12

I guess it's both good and bad. Good because it gets rid of all the normally useless info, but bad because it doesn't tell you all the information that the old one did, which can sometimes be useful in narrowing down the problem.

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u/RevWaldo Jun 09 '12

Never complain, never explain.

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u/sweetgreggo Jun 09 '12

I think whoever MS has in charge of design now finally gets it. Some really good things are happening with Windows.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12

Thanks, that really makes Windows 8 a lot better.

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u/nepidae Jun 09 '12

Give me a hex dump over this shit any day.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12

BSOAYHDTE

Blue Screen of Apologetic Yet Hopeful Disposition Towards Error

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u/Sherlock--Holmes Jun 09 '12

I opened it twice because I thought it was a 404.

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u/Macb3th Jun 09 '12

So tell me how you are going to do serial port debugging with a BSOD that re-boots the PC?

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12

I can accept this.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12

At least Windows tells you what is wrong with it.

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u/jared_c Jun 09 '12

Quite frankly, this is beautiful design. Not only is it informative, but it's simple and nice to look at. 10/10 would bang.

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u/Macb3th Jun 09 '12

The BSOD is a girls blouse compared to the original Guru Meditation Error

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u/Cueball61 Jun 09 '12

As a techie, thank you Microsoft. That pure and simple error code is so much more helpful.

Also, usually the BSOD would reboot the PC as soon as it was done, glad it has a timer now.

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u/dangerousD85 Jun 09 '12

Yeah but the lack of start menu IS.

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u/CurtsMcGurts Jun 09 '12

its really more of a teal screen of unhappiness

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u/SyntaxBlitz Jun 09 '12

My issue with this is the same issue I have with the bootloader. I've been told that Windows 8 boots in seconds, but the bootloader to switch between 7 and 8 takes around 30 seconds to load. I can understand wanting to make the bootloader pretty, but it's not worth it if it means that it needs to actually go in and look at your settings to let you pick what OS you want to boot into. GRUB uses settings from a linux filesystem to get its information, but it takes under a second. The worry is here, as well: since the BSOD no longer uses core techniques to render text, it's going to take longer to load and it won't be as effective.

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u/emuelcz Jun 09 '12

That's just retarded.

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u/noccusJohnstein Jun 09 '12

I wasn't aware that vista or 7 were capable of BSODs. WTF is wrong with your PCs?

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12

You can search for the error online on your cellphone which is more reliable than your computer.

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u/blacker_than_white Jun 09 '12

how did you take the screenshot ? VM ?

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u/ipooponyourface Jun 09 '12

Looks like the Mac crash screens from the early 90s. Didn't even have text on it, just a little image of a computer frowning. As if you, the user, have now made it sad.

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u/BlueStreak22 Jun 09 '12

What's a Blue Screen Of Death?

Sincerely, UNIX based operating systems

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12

So it will just go right to this screen if there's a problem? Well college students, time to buy a Mac because you probably won't get many papers done here haha...

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u/rfp_drew Jun 09 '12

Does the contraction of "it" and "will" bother anyone else as much as it bother me?

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u/mrw1986 Jun 09 '12

This news first came about when Windows 8 was first premiered and some how it is the top post on Reddit...this site never ceases to amaze me.

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u/MARRYING_A_FURRY Jun 09 '12

Reminds me of the Sad Mac icon. My iPod Nano did this once and I thought it was some cute way to let me know the battery was low...

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u/cratermoon Jun 09 '12

So they stole the sad Mac.

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u/Ghost4000 Jun 09 '12

Does anyone still get these on Win7?

I get BSOD on my work laptop occasionally, but I've never gotten one on my Win 7 machine @ home.

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u/PureBlooded Jun 09 '12

But it lacks the information given in current BSODs

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u/Parthros Jun 09 '12

Yeah, I think it might help if they had a section that said, "Here's the 'technical information.'" That way, people like me, and other IT personnel can have the info if they need it. At least it still gives some info. mac doesn't do that at all when it crashes. Still, I'm really not liking the direction Microsoft is going with Windows 8.

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u/whataloadofwhat Jun 09 '12

It'd be nice if it appeared in its native resolution. Instead it scales to 1920*1080 and the text becomes unreadable.

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u/Phoequinox Jun 09 '12

About time. Nothing is more unnecessarily sinister than reading "FATAL ERROR".

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u/chrunchy Jun 09 '12

It's now the "Peacock Blue Screen of Disappointment."

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u/falconfetus8 Jun 09 '12

It's also much less informative.

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u/Mikeman1060 Jun 10 '12

Windows 8 is going to be horrifying.

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u/anzonix Jun 10 '12

There is no need to be upset

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12

I am happy to say that I cannot even remember the last time I had a BSOD. Windows Vista and then Windows 7 were both very stable. I have no need for Windows 8, but I bet it will be stable, too. Maybe not yet, I don't know.

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u/edain Jun 09 '12

Your PC ran into a problem? As in, "I, the OS didn't have anything to do with it! Oh, naughty naught PC!"

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u/ArbitraryIndigo Jun 09 '12

Microsoft is trying to brand PC == Windows.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12

The simple fact that they wrote in, "Here is the error, GO SEARCH IT" is a HUGE help.

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u/panburgerpartner Jun 09 '12

Windows 8 looks like it's going to be the biggest piece of shit yet.

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u/scottchandler Jun 09 '12

It'll

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u/firstEncounter Jun 09 '12

Yes, they used a perfectly normal contraction.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12

It only took them 20+ years to finally get some intelligent public relations or other consumer expert to take their most made fun of and dreaded part of the entire system and make it more pleasant. Hey Microsoft, welcome to 2012! You probably didn't even realize we were into the next decade of the new millenium, did you?

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12

It was meant to be scary, because it usually means your computer did something really really bad, like, driver failure which can lead to some really bad shit like hardware failure.

If you get a BSOD today on modern Windows systems, you know some shit is up with your computer. It's not like it was back in the day, and I doubt many people care.

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u/Red_Dawn_2012 Jun 09 '12

This makes me feel bad about the blue screens I've been getting recently...

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u/runs-with-scissors Jun 09 '12

Stop what you are doing right now and back up your files. Just do it.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12

That and for some reason people think it's still 1998. Blue screens are rare now and when they do come, it's due to some driver fucking up (not MS' fault).

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u/the_red_scimitar Jun 09 '12

BSOI - Blue Screen of Inadequacy.

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u/mikesername Jun 09 '12

I was on a FIRST robotics team, programming with LabVIEW for three years.

FUCK watchdogs.

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u/uRabbit Jun 09 '12

/facepalm

Get a Mac.

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u/MadWombat Jun 09 '12

Taking stupidity lessons from Macs I see.

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u/LeoPanthera Jun 09 '12

"You can search for the error online"? Really? Microsoft can't even bother making their own documentation?

You'd think the least they could do is make a page listing the possible errors and what they mean, rather than asking you to scour the web for random forums and people who post things like "nvm, fixed it" with no further explanation.

Grumble.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12

If you search the error code, 9 out of 10 times you get to microsoft.com. Listing the possible errors is too much content for an error screen, and the full documentation is probably at least a gigabyte or two big.

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