Q: Is it true the Blue Screen has changed in Windows 8?

Windows 8's blue screen of death offers more a sympathetic view of your computer crash. Somewhat.

John Savill

June 1, 2012

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A:Yes. Although the blue screen of death is still blue, it really tries to sympathize with your pain about the crash now.

All of the details that used to beshown are hidden, and instead you're told to search online for the specific problem code. Error information is still saved locally to disk fordebugging. (See screen shot below.)


Windows 8 Blue screen of death

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