When Running windows and it crashes you will get a blue screen and it will automatically restart, often it will restart too fast for you to see the error message. You could check the error log in this case but that is too easy. We are going to disable auto restart on system failure.
1. Go to Start -> Control Panel -> System (Windows+Pause works, too)
2. Go to Advanced
3. Under the Startup and Recovery section, click Settings…
4. Under System Failure un-check “Automatically restart”

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