In Windows 11 24H2, the iconic frowning emoji is gone, replaced with a much more straightforward screen: a black background with the words, “Your device ran into a problem and needs to restart.” ...

Wave goodbye to the Windows “blue screen of death”. Much like Clippy and Windows Phone before it, the much-hated error screen ...

The software company said that this "simplified" user interface for unexpected restarts will be available from later this summer on all of its Windows 11 (version 24H2) devices. Edited by: Sean Sinico ...

Microsoft replaces the Blue Screen of Death with a new black version in Windows 11, adding Quick Machine Recovery and improved accessibility features.

For enterprise devices managed by IT departments, the issue will resolve once your network admin installs and configures the Windows 11 24H2 and Windows Server 2025 KB5053656 250412_03103 Known ...

Instead of the previous message: “Your PC ran into a problem that it couldn't handle and now it needs to restart,” the screen now simply says “Your device ran into a problem and needs to ...

The bigger change than the color of the background is that the screen is far plainer, only offering a message stating that: “Your device ran into a problem and needs to restart.” ...

A new message — in white lettering — is slated to say, “Your device ran into a problem and needs to restart.” For more than three decades, Windows has denoted some sort of serious crash or ...

It now says “Your device ran into a problem and needs to restart,” which is much shorter and less ominous or overwhelming. It also says “device” instead of “PC,” which broadens it to ...

Gone is the emoticon of a frowny-face, which has defined the BSOD look since Windows 8. Now, the screen presents a simple message: "Your device ran into a problem, and needs to restart," followed ...

Microsoft also announced two new features for the Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.3653 (Beta Channel): quick machine recovery and speech recap in Narrator.