Subj : Windows 11 hack keeps your PC alive (sort of) after a Blue Screen
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From : TechnologyDaily
Date : Fri Jan 19 2024 12:30:05

Windows 11 hack keeps your PC alive (sort of) after a Blue Screen of Death 
crash

Date:
Fri, 19 Jan 2024 12:27:42 +0000

Description:
This trick is pretty crafty, and we hope it might inspire Microsoft to do 
something similar to improve BSODs.

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A Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) in Windows 11 is when the PC locks up entirely, 
with no possible recourse  except to reboot there and then  unless youve 
hacked the operating system, that is. 

 Toms Hardware reports that NTDEV, the maker of Tiny11 ( a lightweight 
version of Windows 11 ) flagged up on X (formerly Twitter) that NSG650 has a 
project on GitHub which is a driver that modifies the normal BSOD behavior, 
firing up a Linux emulator when a crash occurs. 

In other words, instead of just having the option to reboot, you get a RISC-V 
Linux emulator popping up post-crash. How is this done? It leverages the 
bugcheck callback feature in Windows  which is part of the BSOD process, and 
allows for code to run after a crash  and in this case, the code inserted 
brings up the emulator. 

Now, all the Linux emulator consists of is a basic command line (like the old 
days of DOS, just a text interface), and you cant really do anything with it  
its just showing what can be done (see the video clip below), rather than 
actually implementing anything useful. Analysis: An opportunity for 
Microsoft? 

With this methodology discovered, this raises the question that with some 
work, could something more advanced be concocted along these lines? Something 
that does allow you to do useful things after a BSOD, like plug in a USB 
drive and back up files, for example, if youre worried they might be 
corrupted. Or maybe to run some kind of lightweight recovery utility. 

Having seen this in action, though, its entirely possible Microsoft will 
patch this out, as it could be seen as a security risk in Windows 11 (and 
Windows 10 for that matter). 

However, we can but hope that it might inspire Microsoft to look at doing 
something more useful, as mentioned, with the BSOD, and allowing at least 
some post-crash options, if indeed its possible to work anything meaningful 
in that way  which we dont know, we should add. 

For the moment, this little trick remains an interesting novelty, with a 
tantalizing possibility that it could become more than that in the future. 
Whatever the case, even if nothing happens along those lines, we think 
Microsoft could definitely improve BSODs in other ways  though if you happen 
to encounter one, at least we have a Blue Screen of Death survival guide . 
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Link to news story:
https://www.techradar.com/computing/windows/windows-11-hack-keeps-your-pc-aliv
e-sort-of-after-a-blue-screen-of-death-crash


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