Crowdstrike Updates Cause Global Outages For Windows Computers

If your Windows computers are down and you’re running Crowdstrike, here’s the fix:

1. Boot Windows into Safe Mode in the Windows Recovery Environment
2. Navigate to the C:\Windows\System32\drivers\CrowdStrike directory
3. Locate the file matching “C-00000291*.sys”, and delete it
4. Boot the host normally

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