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Here I am going to show you how to analyze the minidump file to identify the cause of BSOD which  happend in my laptop. The minidump file will be located in C:\Windows\minidump\ where we can find the dump file in date month year time format. eg: 150513-22994-01.dmp. You have to download the Windbg tool from the below link to analyze the minidump file. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/hardware/gg463009/ After installation of the Windbg tool, you have to configure the sysmbol path before analayzing the dump file. You can set the sysmbol path by going to File menu, Select Symbol file path and add the below line SRV*c:\localsymbols*http://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols Now your Windbg tool is ready for analyzing the dump file. You can open the dump file by clicking on File menu and then open crashdump. Then enetr the command !analyze -v in the console as shown in the below figure. After executing the command you can see a lot of information.  If you sc

If you want to enable features like Telnet , ISS in Windwso 7 you may have to go to Windows feature on or off from Programs and features of control panel. Some times you may get a blank window as below There may be multilple reason you may get this above issue. I have come accross same issue and resolved it. The generic steps for resolving the issue is explained here. Step 1: Perform a SFC /Scannow to scan all protected system files and repair it. Ref: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/931712 Step 2 : If step 1 doesnot helped you, then run System update readiness tool on the machine and look for the errors generated in C:\windows\logs\cbs\checksur.log. You can download the system update readiness tool  from microsoft. 32bit : http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=3132 64bit : http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=20858 I ran the tool on the problamatic machine and found the following entries in it. ------------------------------------