If you’ve been a Windows user for a while, you’ve likely been the recipient of a BSOD at some point, but there’s no way to easily take a screenshot of the screen—you have to either whip out a digital camera, or try and frantically scribble the error down on some paper. BlueScreenView parses the minidump files generated during a blue screen, and then displays the same error just as you saw it before—and all you have to do is launch the no-installation-required application to do so.
BlueScreenView is a free download from NirSoft. If you would rather just have time to write down the error message whenever a blue screen comes up, I’ve previously written an article on how to troubleshoot the blue screen of death by preventing automatic reboot.
BlueScreenView [NirSoft via Life Rocks 2.0]