If you have ever been working on the computer and experienced the dreaded blue screen of death, then you know the frustration that can come from seeing that bright blue screen. After the frustration has subsided, you have to make some important decisions. One of which is how you are going to go about fixing the blue screen of death. Most blue screen problems can be fixed without the help of technical support. It just takes a bit of computer knowledge and some patience.
The first step to fixing a blue screen of death problem is to diagnosis the problem. When the blue screen appears, try to read some of the code that is found on the screen. The codes will lead you to be able to tell if the blue screen is being caused by a hardware problem or a software problem. If you need to diagnosis the problem and cannot read the code, Windows Microsoft offers a website that will run a brief scan and diagnosis the problem for you.
The second step to fixing the blue screen of death is to uninstall any software that was recently downloaded. Many times downloading a specific program will cause it to damage drivers on the computer that will cause a blue screen. If you recently downloaded a program, uninstall it and see if the problem was fixed.
The third step to fixing the blue screen problem is to run a virus scanner. A lot of the malicious software that is out there will cause a blue screen to occur. To remove the virus, start the computer up in safe mode. This can be done by starting the computer and pressing the F8 button. Disable the Internet and run a virus scanner on the system. If it finds any problems remove them immediately. After running the virus scan make sure you do a registry clean by using a registry cleaner program, like CCleaner or Windows registry clearer.