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  2. 2024 CrowdStrike incident - Wikipedia

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    Faulty CrowdStrike software update. Outcome. ~8.5 million Microsoft Windows operating systems crash worldwide, causing global disruption of critical services. On 19 July 2024, American cybersecurity company CrowdStrike distributed a faulty update to its Falcon Sensor security software that caused widespread problems with Microsoft Windows ...

  3. Windows Error Reporting - Wikipedia

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    The Problem Reports and Solutions Control Panel applet was replaced by the Maintenance section of the Windows Action Center on Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2.. A new app, Problem Steps Recorder (PSR.exe), is available on all builds of Windows 7 and enables the collection of the actions performed by a user while encountering a crash so that testers and developers can reproduce the situation for ...

  4. System Restore - Wikipedia

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    System Restore is a feature in Microsoft Windows that allows the user to revert their computer's state (including system files, installed applications, Windows Registry, and system settings) to that of a previous point in time, which can be used to recover from system malfunctions or other problems. First included in Windows Me, it has been ...

  5. Blue screen of death - Wikipedia

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    systemd, a software suite providing system components for Linux operating systems, implements a blue screen of death similar to those of Microsoft Windows using a systemd unit called systemd-bsod since August 2023, which was fully added on December 6, 2023 starting with version 255 of systemd. [36]

  6. Black screen of death - Wikipedia

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    In late 2009, several new reports of the black screen of death in Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7 emerged. At first, several claims pointed at Windows Update. This was later recanted by Prevx as an erroneous report. [4] [5] Microsoft reported that no security update was causing the issue, and may be tied to malware.

  7. PowerShell - Wikipedia

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    PowerShell is a task automation and configuration management program from Microsoft, consisting of a command-line shell and the associated scripting language.Initially a Windows component only, known as Windows PowerShell, it was made open-source and cross-platform on August 18, 2016, with the introduction of PowerShell Core. [4]

  8. List of Microsoft Windows versions - Wikipedia

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    A "personal computer" version of Windows is considered to be a version that end-users or OEMs can install on personal computers, including desktop computers, laptops, and workstations. The first five versions of WindowsWindows 1.0, Windows 2.0, Windows 2.1, Windows 3.0, and Windows 3.1 –were all based on MS-DOS, and were aimed at both ...

  9. Time formatting and storage bugs - Wikipedia

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    Microsoft Windows 95 and Windows 98 had a problem with 2 32 millisecond rollover in a virtual device driver (VTDAPI.VXD), which caused systems to hang after 49.7 days. [ 81 ] .NET up to version 6.0 had a bug that caused threadpool hill-climbing to fail periodically after 49.7 days due to an overflow while handling the milliseconds since startup.