Their purpose is to inform the user about the potential cause and prevent damage to the system.
Considered by many users as the most annoying part of the operating system, these special error messages are displayed when a fatal system error happens. If you're here because a Blue Screen of Death (BSoD) with the error Critical_Process_Died message popped up on your screen, interrupting your work and causing your computer to reboot, then you can let out a sigh of relief: we have some solutions for you.īSoDs, also known as STOP errors or STOP codes, are part of the Windows operating system since Windows NT 3.1, which was released in 1993.