The Driver Verifier screen in Windows Vista and 7. In Windows 8 and 8.1: Press Windows Key + X; Click Command Prompt (Admin) (Windows PowerShell (Admin) in Windows 8.1) In the new box, type verifier and press Enter. The Driver Verifier screen in Windows 8. All verisons of Windows: Make sure Create custom settings (for code developers) is. A welcome addition to Windows 8.1. Thanks for the tip VG. Allsop1 on August 17, 2013 at 9:11 am. I uninstalled windows 8.1 yesterday and installed windows 7. 8.1 was to unstable, windows explorer kept crashing. On a side note i noticed an update bug. When you update windows 7 if you hide the bing update for 1.3,then check for updates again. May 08, 2016 Resolution for Windows 8.1 BSOD problems. As I scrolled through different posts on several forms, I found the primary cause for ‘Blue Screen of Death‘ problems is either due to software or hardware.Ya, this is like a quick-fix to your problem and you can stop reading all.
In Windows 8, Microsoft changed the design of the stop screen (also called the BSOD or Blue Screen Of Death). Instead of showing technical info with white letters on a blue background, Windows 8 shows a sad smiley and just the error code. But if you want to turn on the old style BSOD in Windows 8, follow the instructions below.
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Microsoft dumbed down the bug check screen in Windows so it would be less intimating to casual users. However, if you do get a BSOD in Windows 8, you would want to perform some troubleshooting to fix it. In this scenario, the sad emoticon is not helpful at all. Keeping this in mind, Microsoft made the classic BSOD available in Windows 8.
- If you are running Windows 8, first you need to download and install the KB2929742 hotfix. Click the 'Hotfix Download Available' button on the page, check the correct version of your hotfix (32-bit or 64-bit) on the next page, and then enter your email address and CAPTCHA. The hotfix will be sent to your email. Download it and apply it if you haven't already downloaded this hotfix.
- Open the Registry editor (see how).
- Navigate to the following registry key:
- Create a new DWORD value named DisplayParameters and set to 1.
That's it. Restart your computer for the changes to take effect. The next time you will see the good old, detailed stop information instead of the useless sad emotion on the Blue Screen of Death.
Bonus Tip: You can test how your BSOD looks like using the official tutorial from Microsoft:
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- Go to Control Panel -> System and Security -> System. Click Advanced system settings. Under Startup and Recovery, click Settings. Ensure that you have the automatic memory dump enabled under the Write Debugging Information section.
- If you are using a PS/2 keyboard, go to the following registry key:Create here a value named CrashOnCtrlScroll, and set it to 1 to enable the keyboard-initiated crash.
- With a USB keyboard which is what most computers have these days, create the CrashOnCtrlScroll value mentioned above at the following registry key:
Restart Windows for the settings to take effect.
Disable Windows 8 Activation Blue Screen Free
After restart, use the following hotkey sequence: Hold down the right CTRL key, and press the SCROLL LOCK key twice. This will cause a user-initiated BSOD.
Disable Windows 8 Activation Blue Screen Door
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