If you choose to update PLEASE understand what you are doing and how to reverse it. Warning – Ever since updating to macOS Sierra 10.12 and the current 10.12.1, NVIDIA’s drivers are causing my Mac to kernel panic. Even if you’re confident about updating manually think before you do it, is it really necessary? Apple optimise macOS and update the drivers themselves to deliver the most stable, safe operating environment for your Mac. I absolutely wouldn’t recommend doing this unless you know what you’re doing and confident in your ability to do so (that’s my disclaimer – if everything goes catastrophically wrong I cannot be held responsible). Image Credit: Radu B ercan/ graphics driver updates come from Apple in macOS software updates so you really shouldn’t need to update them manually (the one exception is the Mac Pro which is the only Mac model to have user upgradeable graphics cards). The blue screen of death indicates that your Windows operating system has completely crashed, and all you can do is restart your PC.

Of course, if you see a blue screen of death, this shortcut won’t help. It’s not good for your computer to power it off in this way, but this is all you can do if your PC is frozen. Wait a few seconds before turning the PC back on with the power button.

To do so, press your computer’s power button and hold it down for about ten seconds, until the PC powers off. If your computer doesn’t respond to any of these keyboard shortcuts, even after you restart its graphics driver, you’ll probably need to perform a hard shutdown. You can also try pressing Ctrl+Shift+Esc to open the Task Manager directly, or press Alt+Tab or Win+Tab to try switching applications. If you see a black screen or you’re stuck in an unresponsive full-screen game, be sure to try the Ctrl+Alt+Delete shortcut after restarting your graphics drivers.

Windows 10 uses your graphics hardware to accelerate the drawing of your desktop and even modern web browsers use it to speed up web page rendering. This shortcut can fix freezes that occur while playing 3D games, but it can also recover from freezes that occur while you’re just using your PC normally. However, if your computer froze because of a problem with your graphics drivers, this shortcut may fix it. There’s no guarantee that this will fix a system freeze. Whatever graphics hardware your PC has, it will work. This keyboard shortcut is part of the Windows 10 operating system, so it will restart NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel graphics drivers.

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