Surprisingly, page faults are a common occurrence on Windows systems. In contrast to Linux, where page faults occur less frequently by design, Windows installations will often experience page faults due to various reasons. Whenever Windows cannot find a required memory address in the RAM, it moves to the secondary storage (HDD or SSD) to retrieve it from the page file. Due to a variety of factors, this retrieval can also be interrupted, causing a page fault exception or BSOD.