"If blue is your favorite color, maybe there is a guaranteed way to start hating it -- by seeing it five times a day, accompanied by really charming messages that gently inform you that any unsaved information might be lossed or that there was a hardware failure and so on. Can you guess what I am talking about? Blue Screens of Death, of course. The effects of Blue Screens can vary from causing slight irritation for the user, to real disaster for the data on the computer, to having to rushing the computer shop for buying new hardware, etc. I was joking about the negative feelings towards the blue color because of frequent Blue Screensm but if you really want (or have reasons -- for instance if you are color blind), you can open the system.ini file and change the Screen of Death to be in a different color. More information about what to do after you open the system.ini can be found here."

Anyway, colors of Screens of Death vary across devices and operating systems -- from yellow (Mozilla XML parsing errors), to green (TiVo devices), to black (OS/2 and Windows), so it's up to you to decide if you'll keep it blue or change it. And as rumor goes, in Windows Vista there will be a red Screen of Death, too -- for really serious stop errors. Nice color -- a reminder for the one that has been used for centuries in corrida. Let's just hope that users do not react like bulls.

Some humor (or sarcasm) certainly helps but now let's get serious about the topic and start exploring why Blue Screens appear and what to do when you frequently see them.

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