How to prevent "your pc couldn't turn off properly" blue screen from showing

Question

Hello,

Sometimes our customers will turn off the power to our Windows IoT device (or have power failure) and the next boot a blue screen (see below) is shown telling the user "Your PC couldn't turn off properly".

I understand this can be useful to some user, but in our case the device only has a touch screen so the user cannot press "Enter" to continue, etc. This causes the unit to malfunction. The only way to recover is to turn off the power again and then turn it back on. The device boots up normally after that.

My question is "Is it possible to deactivate this recovery screen / blue screen?" Is there a registry setting, group policy or something else to bypass this blue screen and continues with boot normally without user input.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

A couple things:

First be sure to set the system to ignore all failures by running the following: bcdedit /set {current} bootstatuspolicy ignoreallfailures
Second using System Image Manager to create the answer file when you install the image, add Embedded-Boot-Exp component and set the DisplayDisabled to 1. This will blank the BSOD screen if an error occurs.