>Also, the STOP's are a pain. Whenever an app crashes badly, NT generates a
>STOP; just what it sounds like, a STOP halts the operating system and forces
>you to restart.

An app (presuming it's a user-level app) cannot (to my knowledge) induce a stop
(i.e. bugcheck). Only a faulty kernel-mode component (i.e. ring 0) can do this.


This generally means a bug in a device driver. It is possible, of course, for
an app to induce a bugcheck (AKA BSOD, the 'Blue Screen Of Death') if it is
communicating with a device driver in such a way as to flush the bug out. Also,
some apps come with their own kernel-mode drivers (though this is uncommon).
However, the same principle applies there - the bug is in the device driver.

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