Picking up the pieces after a computer crash Has this happened
to you? It’s late and you’re trying to finish up a rush project
for work. You decide to make one last little change, and then…
your computer freezes ominously, or worse, you see the "Blue
Screen of Death" (the blue screen with white text telling you
that your computer has stopped working). It always seems to
happen at the worst possible moment. In the aftermath, you are
left wondering what, if anything, can be salvaged of the
documents you were working on. The fact is, bad things do happen
to good people. Here’s how to survive a computer crash with your
sanity and maybe even your sense of humor intact. What causes a
computer to crash? First, let's review some of the dark forces
at work behind a computer crash. A crash can be caused by a
number of things, including: Not surprisingly, the solutions to
these problems vary widely as well. For more information, see
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