Instead of "not responding/stopped working" I get a BSOD

I've had this problem for a while, only recently I've felt very motivated to solve it. I'm running Windows 7 x64 now, but it also happened back when I was running Windows Vista x64.

When an application hangs, normally you'll get "This program has stopped working" like this:
http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/1087/img1p.gif

Or, if you have the Windows Error Reporting Service (WerSvc) disabled, this:
http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/1820/stoppedresponding.png

Instead of either of those, when an app hangs, I get a SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION in wink32k.sys BSOD.

I've found a reliable way of making an app hang on my system, so at least I'm able to try different things and see if they worked right away. I've tried the same thing on another Windows 7 computer here and it gives me the "application is not responding" message, no BSOD.

I've disabled a lot of services, so that may be it, and I may have to back through and reenable a lot and see what happens.

In the meantime, any ideas?

>> Re: Instead of "not responding/stopped working" I get a BSOD

Hrm hum, well, I've narrowed it down, turns out to be a program that I use that hooks into running windows:
http://www.ntwind.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1153

Hopefully the developer can reproduce it and patch her up.

>> Re: Instead of "not responding/stopped working" I get a BSOD

Hopefully.

MkFly

;)

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Core i7 @ 4.00Ghz | GA-EX58-UD5 | 6x2Gb OCZ DDR3 | eVGA 8800GTX | Windows 7 Ultimate RC x64

>> Re: Instead of "not responding/stopped working" I get a BSOD

In my efforts to narrow down the cause, I caused (on purpose) a few BSOD's. This was the first one I've ever seen where the mouse was present, so I took a picture:
http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/6425/bsodmouse.jpg

Weird.

>> Re: Instead of "not responding/stopped working" I get a BSOD

Wow I've seen prolly few thousand BSOD's but never seen a mouse cursor on any of them..

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Core i7 @ 4.00Ghz | GA-EX58-UD5 | 6x2Gb OCZ DDR3 | eVGA 8800GTX | Windows 7 Ultimate RC x64

>> Re: Instead of "not responding/stopped working" I get a BSOD

Update: the author updated with a workaround, I haven't had a BSOD since:

Under Windows Vista/7, the window manager creates a "ghost" window when it thinks that a GUI application is not responding (so you can move this window over the screen and see its content -- compare to Windows XP). It looks like the window manager (win32k.sys, running under kernel mode) generates the exception when the "ghost" window processes the user-mode hook (wspace32.dll, wspace64.dll).