Understanding Windows Errors

Summary

Windows and other critical errors can occur when your Windows operating system becomes corrupted. Opening programs will be slower and response times will lag. When you have multiple applications running, you may experience crashes and freezes. There can be numerous causes of this error including excessive startup entries, registry errors, hardware/RAM decline, fragmented files and so on.

Windows Errors

A Windows error is an error that happens when an unexpected condition occurs or when a desired operation has failed. When you have an error in Windows, it may be critical and cause your programs to freeze and crash or it may be seemingly harmless yet annoying.

Blue Screen of Death

A BSoD is displayed by Windows operating system upon encountering a critical error, of a non-recoverable nature, that causes the system to crash and is the error screen displayed by the Microsoft Windows family of operating systems

Damaged DLLs

DLL's becoming corrupt/damaged mostly caused by constantly installing and uninstalling programs. This often means that DLL files will get overwritten by newer versions when a new program is installed, for example. This causes problems for other applications and programs that might still need the old version to operate. Thus, these programs might malfunction and crash.

Freezing Computer

Computer hanging or freezing occurs when either a program or the whole system ceases to respond to inputs. In the most commonly encountered scenario, a program freezes and all windows belonging to the frozen program become static. In most cases, the only way to recover from a system freeze is to reboot the machine, usually by power cycling with an on/off or reset button.

Virus Damage

Once your computer has been infected with a virus, it's no longer the same. After removing it with your anti-virus software, you're often left with lingering side-effects. Technically, your computer might no longer be infected, but that doesn't mean it's error-free. Even simply removing a virus can actually harm your system.