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(2026/02/13)
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Bork!Bork!Bork! As if to demonstrate that whatever one operating system can do, Windows can do it better, bluer, and upside down, we present a bus stopping only at bork.
Today's example of signage woes - thanks to reader Spike - comes from a Nottingham bus, headed for Recovery (though hopefully the right way up).
According to an eagle-eyed Register reader, the screen normally shows the next few stops, but now it is only displaying a baleful blue screen and a warning that Windows is very unhappy about something.
[1]
"Your PC/Device needs to be repaired" is not the message a bus's passengers expect to see.
[2]
Upside down Windows recovery screen on a Nottingham bus
Nottingham is a city in the English county of Nottinghamshire and, aside from various tales of Robin Hood-based exploits, is also notable for being the home of the oldest professional football (soccer) club in the English Football League, Notts County.
[3]Summer in Australia means beers, beaches, and bork
[4]Help! Does anyone on the bus know Linux?
[5]Microsoft's 'atypical' emergency Windows patches are becoming awfully typical
[6]Bork ventures to the Middle of Lidl
The display on the bus is quite a bit more up to date, with a recovery screen that looks like something thrown up by Windows 10. The 0xc000000e might be something to do with a Boot Configuration Data file, possibly as a result of a failing or disconnected drive.
While any Register reader worth their IT credentials will have a repair disk to hand, hunting for a suitable port on a bus is likely to be frowned upon by the operator.
[7]
And then there is the question of why the display is upside down. Ease of cable routing? Or, more likely, a reflection because the screen is mounted elsewhere. Whatever the reason, orientation can easily be handled in software. However, a tumble into Recovery mode has shown things as they really are. Windows is upside down.
Destination Recovery, or a jaunt to the Upside Down from Netflix drama Stranger Things, is unlikely to be a place the passengers want to go. Windows, it seems, has other ideas. ®
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[3] https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/06/supermarket_bork_australia/
[4] https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/02/bus_linux/
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Today's example of signage woes - thanks to reader Spike - comes from a Nottingham bus, headed for Recovery (though hopefully the right way up).
According to an eagle-eyed Register reader, the screen normally shows the next few stops, but now it is only displaying a baleful blue screen and a warning that Windows is very unhappy about something.
[1]
"Your PC/Device needs to be repaired" is not the message a bus's passengers expect to see.
[2]
Upside down Windows recovery screen on a Nottingham bus
Nottingham is a city in the English county of Nottinghamshire and, aside from various tales of Robin Hood-based exploits, is also notable for being the home of the oldest professional football (soccer) club in the English Football League, Notts County.
[3]Summer in Australia means beers, beaches, and bork
[4]Help! Does anyone on the bus know Linux?
[5]Microsoft's 'atypical' emergency Windows patches are becoming awfully typical
[6]Bork ventures to the Middle of Lidl
The display on the bus is quite a bit more up to date, with a recovery screen that looks like something thrown up by Windows 10. The 0xc000000e might be something to do with a Boot Configuration Data file, possibly as a result of a failing or disconnected drive.
While any Register reader worth their IT credentials will have a repair disk to hand, hunting for a suitable port on a bus is likely to be frowned upon by the operator.
[7]
And then there is the question of why the display is upside down. Ease of cable routing? Or, more likely, a reflection because the screen is mounted elsewhere. Whatever the reason, orientation can easily be handled in software. However, a tumble into Recovery mode has shown things as they really are. Windows is upside down.
Destination Recovery, or a jaunt to the Upside Down from Netflix drama Stranger Things, is unlikely to be a place the passengers want to go. Windows, it seems, has other ideas. ®
Get our [8]Tech Resources
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[2] https://regmedia.co.uk/2026/02/09/bork.jpg
[3] https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/06/supermarket_bork_australia/
[4] https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/02/bus_linux/
[5] https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/02/microsoft_quality_control/
[6] https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/29/bork_ventures_to_the_middle/
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jdiebdhidbsusbvwbsidnsoskebid
Upside down monitor? I've done that before when mounting a monitor to the ceiling and using the handy built in stand. This was before standard VESA mounts where a thing. I can't remember how the display was inverted (it wasn't windows), but it was a team effort.
Looking back, I don't think we ever tested the monitor stand for strength that way up, but it seemed ok.
Bork is clearly on the far side of Bonk, Uberwald
Bebu sa Ware
The Windows installation was well and truly bonked on the way through.
Although the uncharitably accurate would claim that Windows has always shipped if not exactly pre·borked definitely pre·bonked.
Upside down ?
Bebu sa Ware
Looks ok from here (AU.)
Re: Upside down ?
Anonymous Coward
¡ʎꞁʇɔɐxǝ sʇɥᵷnoɥʇ ʎꟽ
... or it could have been designed for folks on the promenade of a double-decker bus ... (and vice versa)! ;)
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elsergiovolador
I had to call my Aussie mate to read the headline for me.
I said upside down, You're turning me
that one in the corner
This display is a Pepper's Ghost of its former self.
“You have reached your Final Destination”