The good news is that it’s usually not a terribly serious issue.

If the troubleshooter identifies problems with any of your system’s components, it may warrant replacing them.

If it’s a storage problem, a new drive will also require reinstalling or cloning your Windows installation.

Reset or reinstall Windows:If nothing else has worked, you may need tocompletely reinstall Windows.

However, when all else fails, this often solves any issues you might be having.

Reinstalling Windows will erase all the files and applications you have stored on your hard drive.

What is the Critical Process Died Stop Code?

The second is to tell you roughly what the problem was with a specialized stop code.

In the case of the critical process died error, you’ll see that on the blue screen.

We’re just collecting some error info, and then we’ll restart for you."

If it reads something else, you’ll want to search for that error instead.

This isn’t entirely uncommon and isn’t too difficult to fix.