Ihave to run windows either as dual-boot or in a VM to maintain compatibility with colleagues. I also have a computer provided to me with my work machine for outlook, VPN and various custom apps for finance and to access printers at my work since I do not have admin privileges to connect them in Linux. My son therefore made a windows wallpaper of the blue screen for when I am running windows. Colleagues may see it at a meeting and think I have a problem with my machine. Gives me a chuckle anyway.
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One of the most feared colors in the NT world is blue. The infamous BlueScreen of Death (BSOD) will pop up on an NT system whenever somethinghas gone terribly wrong. Bluescreen is a screen saver that not onlyauthentically mimics a BSOD, but will simulate startup screens seenduring a system boot.
Bluescreen cycles between different Blue Screens and simulated bootsevery 15 seconds or so. Virtually all the information shown onBluescreen's BSOD and system start screen is obtained from your systemconfiguration - its accuracy will fool even advanced NT developers. Forexample, the NT build number, processor revision, loaded drivers andaddresses, disk drive characteristics, and memory size are all takenfrom the system Bluescreen is running on.
Note: before you can run Bluescreen on Windows 95 or 98, you must copy\winnt\system32\ntoskrnl.exe from a Windows 2000 system to your\Windows directory. Simply copy Sysinternals BLUESCRN.SCR to your\system32 directory if on Windows NT/2K, or \Windows\System directoryif on Windows 95 or 98. Right click on the desktop to bring up theDisplay settings dialog and then select the "Screen Saver" tab. Use thepull down list to find "Sysinternals Bluescreen" and apply it as yournew screen saver. Select the "Settings" button to enable fake diskactivity, which adds an extra touch of realism!
I used TeamViewer with a client the other night and her desktop screen turned blue after I logged in, and then has stayed that way since then, despite TeamViewer being quit on both sides. Anyone experience this before and know what to do about it?
Actually, it was a Mac on the client's side, and her background wallpaper disappeared because of a setting that was enabled on mt side of TeamViewer which I was able to turn off after getting a message from TeamViewer support.
I installed ubuntu onto my laptop. Once it installed everything was working fine, I installed plex media server from the application downloader, and went to download something it else, and it said I didn't have permissions. Weird, but I figured it was something I had done wrong. So I figured I would mess with that later. I then noticed I could not open up anything at all. So I did the logical thing, I restarted my laptop.
This is when my problem started. My laptop now boots into a desktop with blue wallpaper, no icons and nothing on my favorites bar, and nothing I do working. I can still see text and stuff on the screen but nothing is actually working.
First of I haven\t upgraded in about 2 mounths.. And I just upgraded now, and rebooted, now gnome just showes a bright blue screen and nothing else happens . After pushing ctrl (plus) delete (plus) backspace I can get into gdm login screen. But entering user and pass, I get the same bright blue screen.. I have tryed to move\delete everything starting with gnome in .config without success. I have also tryed : find / /iname pacnew Noone relates to xorg as fair as I can tell. (keyboaprd is also messed up, not beeng able to write the complete command I typed)
I'm having a similar problem, only the background is shown, nothing else (ie: menues, etc) and can't perform any operation. I've recreated my user from scratch and have also completely uninstalled/installed gnome without luck. Then I uninstalled gnome-shell and now I'm able to run gnome in fall back mode at least. I don't know what's going on here.
well, i know the last nvidia driver release was causing a LOT of problems. i use intel integrated so i can't say first hand but a new one (not sure if problems fixed) hit the repos a day or three ago. if you haven't already, check to see if you have the newest driver. additionally, you could try the open-source driver.
Yay! I have the beautiful and pragmatic gnome shell again. I cannot confirm if it was the nvidia package, because many more things were upgraded with pacman -Syu, though you may want to read this post guys: =139496
Occasionally, my desktop background image will disappear and be replaced with a standard blue screen. The only fix I currently know of is to either pick another image to set as the background, or reset my computer. It also happens (sometimes) when I attempt to open an application as an administrator and at the prompt that asks "Do you want to allow this app to make changes to this device," the background image disappears.
First, be sure a high-contrast theme isn't being set in Control Panel\Appearance and Personalization\Personalization. This may happen, for example, is Ease of Access is started by a key-press combination.
Second, check if it's due to Windows Explorer crashing and restarting. To test this, with no application running, open Task Manager (Ctrl-Shift-Esc) and on the Details tab right-click on explorer.exe and End task. The background will revert to blank and the Task Bar will disappear.
In Task Manager, now select File Run new task and enter "explorer.exe". If all is well, in a few seconds the screen should revert to your selected background image and the Task Bar, populated with all normal icons, should reappear. If not, then there is an issue with Explorer configuration. Check the Windows Event Log and use the command line utilities DISM and SFC to check system files.
Wallpaper Engine alone cannot crash your system and it does not affect other programs. If you experience system crashes, system freezes, blue screens or other programs crashing while Wallpaper Engine is running, one of these things is likely the reason:
Any bugs in Wallpaper Engine could only lead to a crash of Wallpaper Engine itself in the worst case, but no bug in Wallpaper Engine could crash your entire system or other programs. This is impossible, Microsoft has designed Windows this way and Wallpaper Engine adheres to this.
Wallpaper Engine needs this from your PC: 3D acceleration, video acceleration, audio. You can try to isolate what is wrong with the PC by using different wallpaper types. For example, if you only have issues with 'video' type wallpapers, the issue might be coming from the video decoding hardware on your graphics card. It won't be used by Windows alone and most games don't use it, so you wouldn't experience issues with it in games.
A few weeks ago windows 7 auto-updated, and afterward I would lose internet connection intermittently. I am on a netgear wifi router, connected to a comcast modem. Windows said no drivers needed updating, so called comcast.
Comcast told me the modem was bad and to exchange. Did this, no fix. Internet still went out frequently. Searched for fix, found another guy having the same problem, went to intel's website and let their auto scanner look at my drivers. Lo and behold I needed driver updates. Updated, swapped out a faulty coaxle, and have not had even a second of internet connectivity issue since - when using the netgear wifi router or hard-connected to modem.
But, it seems to have created a new error. When I try to use my phone as a wifi hotspot, I connect and then immediately get a blue screen error. This is both annoying and concerning - I use my phone for wifi regularly while working and blah blah blah.
So, installed windbg, followed the steps listed at [URL=" -to-open-dmp-files-in-windows-7.html -to-open-dmp-files-in-windows-7.html"] -to-open-dmp-files-in-windows-7.html[/URL] -to-open-dmp-files-in-windows-7.html[/URL] and here is what the thing spit out at me (that I can't decipher):
I am having this exact same problem connecting my Windows 8 Lenovo W510 Thinkpad; Intel Advanced-N 6200 AGN Centrino adapter; latest available 15.3.50.2 Intel provided driver. Abends and restarts after a few minutes when connected to my Verizon Nokia 822 Windows 8 phone hotspot. Problem happens only with the phone hotspot. Seems to work fine with non-mobile hotspots.
An update.... I resolved the issue by going into Device Manager and reverting from the latest Intel driver 15.3.50.2 to the driver that Microsoft bundles with Windows 8 for this adapter, 14.2.1.3 dated 10/7/2011. No further problems. There is another thread on this bug:
I'm having a very similar problem also. The problem occurs every time I try to use my cell phone as a wireless hotspot. I've noticed that there seems to be a correlation between volume of network traffic and how quickly the Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) occurs. The more network activity I create after connecting to my cell phone wireless hotspot, the more quickly the BSOD appears. That being said, so far I have never been able to use the connection for more than a few minutes and in many cases the BSOD occurs immediately after the wireless hotspot connection is established.
I see the same Netwsw00.sys file identified in the BSODs I'm getting that the original poster saw. I have the same DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQAL 0x000000d1 but my arguments differ slightly from the original poster. For example, in my latest BSOD I saw:
Let me know if you need any mini-dumps or need me to run some additional tests. I plan on trying the driver rollback mentioned by some previous posters within the next few days because I need to have this working soon. I need my phone as a hotspot when I travel and I have a trip coming up next week.
I'd like to chime in with similar findings. I can reproduce this problem consistently with my HTC 8X Windows Phone (Verizon) when being used as a hotspot with multiple machines using Intel WiFi adapters, including the latest shipping models of:
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