Thanks, that does seem useful knowledge, although a stacktrace and memory dump aren't super helpful to me, because on Windows I'm the end user, not a kernel or

Thanks, that does seem useful knowledge, although a stacktrace and memory dump aren't super helpful to me, because on Windows I'm the end user, not a kernel or driver dev. Much more useful is being able to see what application I was using and/or what button I clicked immediately before the crash. Sometimes it's an asynchronous process or background-task hardware failure that has nothing to do with the foreground task, but often there's something in the foreground that can give some helpful clues about the chain of events that led to the crash. If the BSOD could be configured to take a screenshot on crash that would be even better than a frozen screen, but I suspect the complexity of implementing such a thing would be significant.