The International IT outage has hits UK’s transport, banking and broadcasting infrastructure (PA)
CrowdStrike has issued a statement explaining how to fix the blue screen error after a major global outage.
The tech giant, which has been named in relation to an outage impacting Microsoft users around the world.
The IT issue has led to flights being grounded in the US, Australia and Germany.
In the UK, train passengers have been warned of travel chaos during rush hour with several operators affected by ‘widespread IT issues’.
One of the country’s major TV channels, Sky News, was also off air on Friday.
CrowdStrike posted on X this morning acknowledging the outage and providing workaround steps.
CrowdStrike’s workaround steps
Follow these work around steps to fix the bluescreen error:
Boot Windows into Safe Mode or the Windows Recovery Environment
Navigate to the C:WindowsSystem32driversCrowdStrike directory
Locate the file matching “C-00000291*.sys”, and delete it.
Boot the host normally.
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