Sekirov Dictionary

crash to desktop

noun 1
verb 1
forms 4

noun1

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An event where a software program running on a computer with an operating system that features a graphical desktop unexpectedly terminates without showing any error or halting of the system, and instead returns the user to the desktop.
- Five months in the making, this latest effort goes a long way in fixing various avionics, campaign, AI, multiplayer and crash-to-desktop issues (see the patch on this month's demo disk). — 1999

verb1

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To experience such an error.
- Finally, as if that wasn't punishment enough, the game crashed to desktop several times during my tests. — 2007

forms

crashed to desktop · crashing to desktop · crashes to desktop · crashes-to-desktop

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