Microsoft Outage: How to Fix Bsod Blue Screen Of Death

This morning (July 19), an important Microsoft IT outage caused havoc throughout the UK and the rest of the world.

A massive global IT outage is impacting hundreds of thousands of companies, including banks, airlines, retailers, and broadcasters.
There are delays worldwide and grounded flights operated by major U.S. airlines. “A global ground stop” has been ordered by United, American, and Delta, according to Representative Eric Swalwell, a member of the House subcommittee on cybersecurity.

Although Microsoft claimed to have resolved the issue, issues still exist, and blue error displays are still showing up on public screens in the US and other countries.

Microsoft Outage

According to cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, a “defect detected in a single content update for Windows” was the cause of the issue.
State troopers in Alaska reported that all of the state’s 911 services were down.

“Strange things are happening right now: in the last several minutes, I have received calls from multiple media outlets, all of which have reported that Windows computers have been randomly BSoDing (Blue Screen of Death). Has anyone else noticed this? Seems to be going into recovery mode”

Said Troy Hunt on X.com

The outage’s widespread impact shows how essential Microsoft’s cloud services are to many different sectors, and if it is not quickly fixed, it could cause serious problems on a global scale.

Users reported the issues on the Crowdstrike cybersecurity firm’s subreddit. People quickly began to disclose that they were experiencing the same problem, known as the Blue Screen of Death, from all around the world, including the US, Australia, and India.

911 was not spared

The preferred emergency service in America Additionally, 911 was not spared from the Microsoft outage. Numerous US states experienced problems, and the outage is also preventing non-emergency contact centres from operating.

According to Newsweek, located in New York City, at least four states lost phone access to emergency services, which resulted in the inability to make 911 calls.

According to the Arizona Republic, even the police and ambulance services are dispatching vehicles by hand. The Arizona Republic spoke with a dispatcher for American Medical Response.

Airlines On Halt

Numerous budget airlines, including Allegiant, Frontier Airlines, and SunCountry, reported operational disruptions as a result of outages. Operations of American Airlines were also impacted.

According to Reuters, Frontier Airlines was among the first to encounter issues, with its operations being momentarily suspended by a “serious Microsoft technical disruption.”

Brodcast Channels are down

Journalist Mike Rogers pointed to his black office computer screen and remarked, “We are trying to find out what is going on as we are dealing with a pretty severe computer outage as of right now.”

There is an outage everywhere, including here. Our computers have all stopped working. For the past few hours, there has been a systematic phenomenon, according to CBC news.

“Clearly, we are not broadcasting. Presenter of Sky News Sports Jacquie Beltrao shared a cheeky selfie of herself drinking coffee on X, saying, “We are trying SkyNews morning.”

While apologising, CrowdStrike CEO cautions that recovery

“Many of the customers are rebooting the system, and it’s coming up, and it’ll be operational because we fixed it on our end,” he said.

“We’re just trying to sort out where the negative interaction was,” he said of the faulty update that affected Windows PCs.

Passengers at Newark International Airport this morning pass by a departures board that is showing a blue error screen.

CrowdStrike’s premarket shares drop 15% after a significant outage affects firms throughout the globe.Microsoft dropped 2% in premarket trade after disclosing problems with its Azure cloud services and Microsoft 365 app suite.

According to George Kurtz, CEO of CrowdStrike, the cybersecurity firm blamed of causing today’s tech disruption, the issue was not a hack but rather an improper upgrade.

The blue screen and a “Recovery” message were displayed on a large screen outside Macy’s in Herald Square, New York, as well as at the terminals of LAX and Minneapolis–St. Paul airports.

How to Fix your system if you run on the same problem

• “Boot Windows into Safe Mode or the Windows Recovery Environment
• “Navigate to the C:\Windows\System32\drivers\CrowdStrike directory
• “Locate the file matching ‘C-0000029*.sys’, and delete it.
• “Boot the host normally.”

Do it manually on all computers.