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According to former Microsoft employee Dave Plummer, the Blue Screen of Death (also known as a Stop error) in the Windows NT family was actually designed by Microsoft developer John Vert and was not inspired by the rudimentary task manager screen of Windows 3.x. [21]
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 ...
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.
And a similar screen preceded the Windows NT Blue Screen of Death, Plummer said, further adding to the confusion. “There was a blue screen in the Windows of the older days of the ‘80s,” he said.
As Windows Latest reports, this pertains to Microsoft’s monthly round of patching released earlier this week, KB5017308, which is potentially important for Windows 10 users as it “addresses ...
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On Windows 10 and 11, since Microsoft removed the syskey utility, scammers will change the user’s account password. The scammer will open the Control Panel, go into user settings and click on change password, and the scammer will ask the user to type in his password in the old password field.