Microsoft's Blue Screen of Death dead in latest Windows 10 preview (Green, actually)

The Register ^ | Jan 10, 2017 | Iain Thomson

[Dalberg-Acton]

Thanks for the info.

[dsc]

“I have yet to find ANYTHING I *LIKE* about it. I have found some things very intrusive, some things very annoying, and some things completely unusable”

I don’t think Microsoft ever achieved the level of usability seen in Norton Desktop running on Win 3.1.

[wbarmy]

The only game I lost and have not been able to reuse in Win10 was Caesar 3. My children and I seem to have an affinity for that game and it will no longer work under Win10.

[BipolarBob]

I downloaded the games back and shut off the updates otherwise they just take them right back off.

http://winaero.com/blog/get-windows-7-games-for-windows-10/

[upchuck]

VLC from videolan, the finest video player ever. Been using it for years. Have never found a video or audio format it couldn't play.

Small, unobtrusive, no PUPS, great software.

[discostu]

I haven’t seen a BSOD on a machine without faulty memory in over a decade.

[dayglored]

> I haven’t seen a BSOD on a machine without faulty memory in over a decade.

Lucky you. Device driver bugs or collisions can still cause a BSOD just fine. I got one on one of my machines about a month ago when updating a driver; first BSOD in probably two years. The good news was that a pair of reboots straightened it out without need for any further diagnosis.

One thing I will say is that Win7 has proven very robust about fixing itself after issues like that. It's a pleasure.