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What Is a Blue Screen of Death? (BSOD Meaning)
The Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) is the blue, full-screen error that often displays after a very serious system crash in a Windows operating system. This term is really just the popularized name for what is technically called a stop message or stop error. …