‘Blue screen of death’: Windows users face massive outage after new Crowdstrike update. All you need to know

Users on social media shared images of their screen stuck on the recovery page with the message on the screen reading, “It looks like Windows didn’t load correctly. If you’d like to restart and try again, choose Restart my PC below.”

Netizens react to Blue Screen issues on windows: 

Netizens posts from around the globe suggest the Blue screen issue is something that is not limited to a specific country. 

One user on X while intimating about the issue wrote, “Something super weird happening right now: just been called by several totally different media outlets in the last few minutes, all with Windows machines suddenly BSoD’ing (Blue Screen of Death). Anyone else seen this?”

A user from Malaysia posted about the issue on Reddit, stating, “Malaysia here, 70% of our laptops are down and stuck in boot, HQ from Japan ordered a company wide shutdown, someone’s getting fireblasted for this shit lmao”

Meanwhile, another user on Reddit also suggested a possible solution to the issue, stating, “Update: Can confirm the below stops the BSOD Loop. Go into CMD from recovery options. change to C:\Windows\System32\Drivers. Rename Crowdstrike to Crowdstrike_Fucked. Start windows. Its not great but at least that means we can get some windows back…”

 

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Published: 19 Jul 2024, 12:00 PM IST