From the course: Windows 11 for IT Support: Advanced Troubleshooting

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Creating a blue screen error on demand

Creating a blue screen error on demand - Windows Tutorial

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Creating a blue screen error on demand

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- [Instructor] The best way to learn how to troubleshoot blue screen of death error messages is to be able to trigger a blue screen of death error on your own on demand so that that way, you can learn how to work through the diagnostic process. So in this video, I want to show you how to trigger a blue screen of death error. Now obviously, what I'm about to show you isn't something that you should do on a production system. So with that said, let's go ahead and cause this machine to blue screen. So what I'm going to do is click on the Start button. From there, I'll click on All apps, then I'll scroll down to the bottom. I'll click on Windows Tools, and then I'm going to right-click on Command Prompt. I'll go to Run as administrator, and this opens up the command prompt window. So in order to trigger a blue screen of death error, what I need to do is to force the shutdown of a critical process because Windows can't run…

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