Sunday, June 16, 2013
By NickG Gars
Windows XP was introduced as the most stable operating system for home
users, since it was the first version of Windows for personal usage, that was
based on the Windows NT kernel. The Windows NT kernel which was first developed
for usage on servers and company environments, where high stability was
important, is much more difficult to crash than the old Windows 98 core.
Although the kernel of Windows XP is much more stable than previous versions
of the operating system, there are still some rare cases where it may stop
responding or it may end itself for security reasons. In this case the user
should see an error displayed with white letters in blue background mentioning
that the operation of Windows has been ended to protect the user from unwanted
results due to software or hardware problems. This type of error messages are
also known as "Blue Screens Of Death" abbreviated to BSOD.
With its default settings, Windows XP does not display these error messages,
but if a critical system error occurs, it automatically restarts the computer
without any warning and without displaying a BSOD. This makes for the average
user, very difficult the process of fixing any system failure.
In this article we will explain how this automatic restart feature can be
disabled, in order to see a detailed error message with the reason of the
system failure. Given this error message, the user can search the Microsoft
Knowledge Base or other web sites, to define which software or hardware
incompatibilities are responsible for the system crash.
The first step is to right click on the "My Computer" icon on your
desktop and then select the "Properties" option. Then select the tab
named "Advanced" and click "Settings" in the "Startup
and Recovery" fieldset. In the window that opens there is an option
"Automatically restart" which should be disabled. Then click OK on all
open windows and dialog boxes. After following these steps, the operating
system will never automatically restart again if a system failure occurs, but
it will display a BSOD instead. In this Blue Screen error message there will be
displayed an error code or file name in the first 5 lines. This error code or
file name must be entered in the search fields of Microsoft Knowledge Base at http://support.microsoft.com
or search engines, in order to narrow down the reason that causes the system
crash and find a solution.
Microsoft Knowledge Base usually gives detailed instructions for each type
of blue screen error message, so the user must always begin searching there,
before looking somewhere else.
Nick Gars writes technical articles for NGI Technology Site
[http://www.ngitech.org] where you can find guides and troubleshooting
instructions for Windows and most programs we use every day.
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