How to fix the bsod (Blue Screen of Death) Issue in Windows Vista and 7

Dec

2009

How to fix the bsod (Blue Screen of Death) Issue in Windows Vista and 7

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One of the most knwon issues as far as Windows operating systems are concerned is the famous blue or black screen of death erros also known as bsod. Here is what to do to fix such an annoying error.

Reboot your computer.
Wait for the blue (or black) screen to appear.
Now, Press the CTRL, ALT and DEL.
Click Start Task Manager.
Click the Application Tab.
Click New Task.
At this point enter this command: “C:\Program Files\ Internet Explorer\ iexplore.exe” “http://info.prevx.com/download.asp?GRAB=BLACKSCREENFIX”
The above command will try to download from the Internet (so, make sure that your Internet connection is ON!), a small program called Fixshell.exe.
When prompted, click OK. Your Internet brwowser will start download the file from the Internet.
Restart your computer.
Done!

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4 Comments to “How to fix the bsod (Blue Screen of Death) Issue in Windows Vista and 7”

tblount Says:
December 17th, 2009 at 12:35 pm

Doesn anyone know what Fixshell.exe actually does?
tblount Says:
December 17th, 2009 at 12:37 pm

FixShell.exe file released by Prevx yesterday shows nothing obviously malicious. It contains a valid XML manifest, and a code certificate backed by VeriSign. And in fact, on our test system with Sophos anti-malware installed, not only did the file not appear to run any process of its own on startup, it did not appear to do what Prevx said it would do: make adjustments to the System Registry.
tblount Says:
December 17th, 2009 at 12:43 pm

“Now Prevx has admitted that as well. On a company blog, director of research Jacques Erasmus admits that the Black Screen of Death is in fact caused by malware, not by the Microsoft security patch. He adds, “We apologize to Microsoft for any inconvenience our blog may have caused.”
William Says:
December 18th, 2009 at 5:55 am

Strange that you say the “screen of death” is caused by malware, tblount, but my system is clean & has been scanned by the like’s of spybot search & destroy, also microsoft security essentials, which both say the system is clean.

I had the dreaded screen of death happen to me once & found out it was a buggy beta driver for my graphics card, which was soon resolved.

My advice to anyone with this problem is to make sure all of your system driver’s are kept up to date.

Cheers,

William