What is a fatal exception and how to fix it? 4 Articles

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by Alan Fernald

When Microsoft introduced their first Windows operating system back around 1990, people often received that dreaded "fatal exception" error message. This message meant that within three seconds, your computer would freeze...read more

by James Taylor

A Fatal Exception is one of those things that to a new comer can be scary, and it's something that happens very often. It's a programming term that's slipped through to the end user, where the origin really wasn't that bad...read more

by Rex Trulove

The term 'fatal exception' was perhaps not the best that could have been devised by Microsoft, since it isn't usually fatal to the computer. Other computer systems also have them, but they are usually not listed as fatal e...read more

by David Harris

A fatal exception occurs when a PC's processor tries to execute an instruction which fails for one of a number of specific reasons (this applies to all personal computers, regardless of chip or operating system). The instr...read more