See information about blue screen of death crashes using minidump records.The top pane shows the minidump records and the second pane provides information about software drivers. The interface is basic with a menu system, a small row of toolbar buttons and two panes. There was no adware, toolbars, spyware or malware included in the file archive.īlueScreenView requires Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Vista, 7, and 8. Windows needs to be configured to save minidump files during crashes in order for the software to be useful. The BlueScreenView app is a portable application and as such does not need to be installed. This can help determine if it is the same issue causing the crashes, if these are related problems, or total unrelated and constitute several distinct problems.

Because each minidump-logged crash is shown in date order, it is also possible to route through each crash to look for any commonalities. This provides a good reminder but also maintains the same visual which makes it more comfortable for users to work with and figure out what is causing the problem. When selecting a dump file, the package will display the complete blue screen of death as it was display quickly before the system went down. The drivers believed to be the problem are marked in the second display. The user can select the crash they are interested to learn more about and view the device driver information in the second pane. The application itself will display a list of previous known crashes in the first pane with all the relevant minidump information. In addition, the software can also pull up the module or software driver that is believed to have caused the crash in the first place and display its file name, product name, file version and a description of the file. It will pull out the minidump file name, the data and time of the crash, the bug check code and its four parameters which can help isolate the true cause of the problem. The application will search through the minidump information that is created by Windows during a crash process. BlueScreenView is an excellent tool for administrators and interested users who are experiencing the dreaded “blue screen of death” signifying a Windows operating system that has failed again and needed to restart.

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