Blue Screen of Death troubleshooting

I recently started having some BSODs (Blue Screen of Death), always while surfing the internet.

In fact, to start with the screen just went black and the whole thing locked up. I since discovered that the BSOD feature was in fact turned off - so it would just crash and freeze or simply reboot without telling me why.

So after turning it back on I discovered it was down to Stop 0x000000F4 - as usual Iresorted to the internet but sadly it was unable to say with any certainty what the problem was.

Then I remembered that I'd told spybot to block a few programs from inserting themselves in the start menu, and in a fit of impatience I had just clicked to block, rather than checking out what they were first.

That proved to be the culprit and since then, touch wood, it's been running fine.

Just goes to prove it's unwise to turn something off, or ban something without checking properly what they actually do.