​Windows 10 BSOD, Blue Screen of Death and MacBook SSD drives

The BSOD (Blue Screen of Death) is a real thing, it’s been around for a long time, and oddly, Microsoft’s information on the BSOD is as useless as ever.

Recently, you may have read about the March update giving some users the BSOD when they try to print. The requirements are pretty specific, so you probably won’t need to worry about that, however, just in case, an article about it is HERE. 

While reading about this, I read somewhere that reverting to an earlier restore point was a solution. This sounded fine, but some people don’t have restore points because their computers aren’t setup to run them. That’s a system option that needs to be turned on. It has saved computers I’ve worked on, where something catastrophic happens to them, and I revert to an earlier restore point, and the problem is gone. So, to turn on the restore point creation, or to manually create a restore point, read THIS. 

For what it’s worth, I have 4% of the drive devoted to my restore points, for me, that’s about 14gb. Probably 10gb would be fine.
 
The other thing that’s been in the news is the M1 Mac SSD drive. There were apparently some panicked users claiming the hard drive would only last about 6 months. Since it’s non replaceable, and Macs are spendy, that would indeed be pretty awful. The premise is that an SSD has a theoretically finite number of WRITES. The more you write to the drive, the quicker it will succumb. This is a somewhat accurate description, but of course, the reality is nothing like it. A great article on this can be found HERE.