Windows takes a break at UK motorway services
Hopefully it isn't the latter – with memory and storage prices the way they are at the moment, a motorway services sandwich or gallon of fuel will seem a positive bargain by comparison.
Key points
- This poor thing at Cherwell Valley services took the advice to heart." The display at the Moto services appears to have run into trouble during a restart.
- A roadside display at Cherwell Valley services has stopped dispensing information and started asking for help.
- The Automatic Repair screen is all too familiar to Windows users.
The eagle-eyed Register reader who spotted the stricken screen told us: "UK motorway signs often tell us that tiredness can kill, urging us to take a break.
Windows offers another attempt or access to repair tools, although the latter options are hidden – perhaps somewhere on the top floor of the neighboring Travelodge.
Additional details
- Our reader is right: taking a break is sensible advice.
- Getting Windows to end one can be another matter.
- Not to be confused with the classic blue screen of death, it might indicate a misbehaving driver during a reboot, an update that did something unexpected, or some sort of hardware failure.
- Getting things moving again will probably require access to the computer behind the screen.
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