:set sarcasm

Who made the brilliant decision that Windows should automatically instantly reboot when it encounters a kernel error/blue screen of death? Many sites out on the internet (and Microsoft’s own support database, I’m sure) will gladly tell you how to go into the Control Panel and disable this “feature.” That doesn’t help much with a machine that won’t boot because it keeps bluescreening. The information in the error message may be cryptic, but it’s at least some info and can sometimes point to a driver or setting that’s causing the problem. Sometimes it would be nice to look at it for more than a millisecond.

Seriously, do people really find it more comforting when their computer just spontaneously reboots, with no indication that something went wrong, rather than display an error message that at least lets the user know that there was a problem of some sort?