Microsoft Windows Outage: What is the effect of Blue Screen of Death? Delete this file to fix

Due to Microsoft Outage, computer systems around the world came to a standstill. Due to this failure, flights had to be canceled in many places, the work of banks, stock markets, payment systems and emergency services also stopped. Microsoft said on Twitter that they are trying to fix this problem and ‘things are slowly improving.’ It is believed that this problem has come due to the software of a company named CrowdStrike, which provides security solutions for Microsoft Windows.

What was the impact on India?

Due to technical fault in India, many services including flights, payment systems and stock market faced a lot of problems. Flights were delayed at airports across the country. Due to this fault, ticket booking and check-in services of many airlines like Indigo, Akasa Airlines and SpiceJet were affected. According to Microsoft 365 Status, cloud service was affected at 3.26 am. Microsoft has restored some services. But users are still unable to restore PowerBI, Fabric, Teams, Purview and Viva Engage services.

what’s coming on the screen

Many people posted photos of their computer screens on social media which showed the following: ‘Windows failed to start properly. If you want to try again, select ‘Restart my PC’ below.’ According to reports, this problem is also affecting many companies, banks and government offices in many countries including India, America, Australia.

What impact will it have on you?

According to the company’s report, the problem may occur to those users who are using Microsoft 365 apps or services. The company says that work is underway to fix this problem.

Blue Screen of Death

Sometimes while using the computer, the screen suddenly turns blue or black and the computer shuts down and restarts automatically. Such a problem is called “Blue Screen of Death” or “STOP code error”. This happens when there is a serious problem in the computer.

Can you fix it yourself?

If you too have been affected by this outage, then the company has posted a recovery plan. This will not give you access to all the services but you will be able to use the services that have been restored. How can you recover, let us tell you…

– Boot Windows in safe mode or recovery environment.
– Then go to C:\Windows\System32\drivers\CrowdStrike directory.
– After that find and delete the file named C-00000291*.sys.
– After doing this, restart your system normally.