Fresh Windows 11 Install - "Critical process died" constant BSOD

I have a fresh install of Windows 11 constantly bluescreening and showing "Critical process died" on the BSOD screen. This same behavior was happening in Windows 10 but was not fixed with the reinstall. It seems to happen most when waking from sleep.

Event viewer does not provide much meaningful detail - it shows critical errors but also shows an error creating the crash dump.

Because it happens with a fresh OS, I suspect either a bad Windows update package or hardware issue. Any help is greatly appreciated!

There is no memory dump files for dumps to be produced, The following should be correct.




Page file must be on the same drive as your operating system


Page file base allocation size must be greater than installed physical RAM


Windows Error Reporting (WER) system service should be set to MANUAL


Set page file to system managed on the OS drive


Set system crash/recovery options to "kernel memory dump"


User account control must be running.


Sometimes SSD drives with older firmware do not create DMPS (update firmware)


Cleaner applications like Ccleaner delete DMP files so dont run them until you are fixed.




Bad Physical RAM may prevent the data from being saved and written to a file on reboot. If you suspect bad RAM run Memtest from this wiki




Full memory dumps can also be deleted (in win 7) if your HD space is under 25 gigs, but if you configured your system as the above suggests, you should not be generating full dumps.