[FIX] CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED BSOD In Windows 10

In our Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) errors series, we’re today going to discuss about CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED stop error in Windows. This is directly related to background process responsible to make your Windows operating system working. Since these processes are crucial for the system and in the absence of them, machine would not operate satisfactorily or safely, they are named as critical processes. When one or more than one of these critical processes fails, either the program utilizing them crashes or the whole system may crash and you’ll see following screen:

As we all know perfect treatment of BSODs is done via crash analysis of dump (.dmp) files. However, sometimes using general approaches for troubleshooting them also work. We’re are here providing you some common steps to fix these errors, which are often recommended by Microsoft Support Engineers in company’s support forums and/or Knowledge Base (KB) articles across web.

We assume that you’ve already tried updating your system drivers to latest ones, uninstalled third-party programs and run System File Checker scan, installed latest Windows Updates available, to initially suppress the error. Even after performing these operations if you’re getting the error, then this page is dedicated to you.

For your convenience, we’ve have divided the steps into multiple fixes. Do try them and see if they helps you.

FIX : CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED BSOD In Windows 10

FIX 1 – Scan Your System With Microsoft Safety Scanner

Microsoft Safety Scanner is free tool, provided officially by Microsoft. This security dedicated program helps us to scan our machine for viruses, spyware, and other malicious software. If on your system a crucial process is failed due to virus or similar threat, use of this tool may tackle it.

You can download this tool from following page:

Download Microsoft Safety Scanner

FIX 2 – Perform Automatic Or Startup Repair

It is generally said that if start is well, then all is well. This is true for your Windows OS as well and sometimes few startup processes may affect the later running processes. So we should give a try to startup repair at once, to solve this blue screen error.

Here is how to perform automatic repair:

Steps to perform automatic repair in Windows

So at this stage, we’ve seen all possible options to troubleshoot this BSOD error. If the issue still persists, try these things:

1. Open Event Viewer, go to Windows Logs -> Application. Scroll down and check the information there. You may see yellow warnings or red errors. If you see a red error, you can double click on it to bring it up and copy the contents to a document, such as Notepad. Then submit your query along with log information to Microsoft Community or Technet forums. Microsoft‘s Engineers or dump experts may help you there to solve the problem.

2. You may also opt to reinstall Windows 10 without affecting your personal files and apps. This will be most economical option in this case and can be treated as permanent fix to the problem, unless its machine problem.

Hope something helps, Good luck!