{"id":133562,"date":"2021-07-02T22:06:32","date_gmt":"2021-07-02T21:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techweekmag.com\/?p=133562"},"modified":"2021-07-03T06:19:07","modified_gmt":"2021-07-03T05:19:07","slug":"black-screen-of-death-in-windows-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/technology\/black-screen-of-death-in-windows-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Black screen of death in Windows 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has changed the color of its famous blue &#8220;screen of death&#8221; in Windows 11. From now on, it will have a black background to match the computer startup and shutdown screens.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first major BSOD (Blue Screen of Death) change since the addition of a sad emoji in Windows 8 in 2012 and a QR code error in 2016.\u00a0For the first time, the &#8220;screen of death&#8221; appeared in Windows 3.0, offering users the ability to diagnose hardware and identify memory errors.\u00a0Typically BSOD includes a data dump that can help system administrators analyze what kind of system error caused it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-133563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/windows11bsod.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"429\" height=\"296\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By the way, in the preview version of Windows 11, the BSOD background color is completely green.\u00a0The company has been using this color for Windows Insider builds since 2016.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source:\u00a0<a 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