STOP 0x000000CE
DRIVER_UNLOADED_WITHOUT_CANCELLING_PENDING_OPERATIONS
A driver unloaded itself but left work pending — when Windows later touched that work, the driver was gone. Common with VPNs, virtual drives and security tools that load/unload drivers on the fly.
Likely causes, most common first
- VPN, virtual-drive or security software with a buggy unload path
- Any driver named in the unloaded-drivers list of the report
How to fix it
1. Check the unloaded-drivers list easy
- Look at the "unloaded drivers" section of the technical details — the culprit is usually there.
- Update or uninstall the software that owns that driver.
The four parameters on the blue screen
Windows shows four hex numbers with this stop code. Here's what each means — our analyzer decodes them automatically from your dump file.
| Parameter 1 | Memory referenced |
| Parameter 2 | 0 = read, 1 = write |
| Parameter 3 | Address of the instruction |
| Parameter 4 | Reserved |
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