

So the prudent course is to prepare for the unexpected. But you don’t live there, and neither do we.

In a fully debugged, perfect world, such occurrences would never darken your computer screen. And on rare occasions, the grim BSOD (“blue screen of death,” more formally known as a Stop error or bugcheck) arrives, bringing your whole system to a halt. Once in a while, a feature of Windows walks off the job without warning. Apps hang (stop responding) or crash (shut down unexpectedly). That might not be exactly how the famous quote goes, but it’s certainly true whenever hardware and software are involved.Īlthough Windows has generally become more stable and reliable over time, it will never be perfect.

