Decoding Windows Errors

[Studlover]

This is a secret list of error codes culled from Microsoft's in house
manual.


WinErr: 001 Windows loaded - System in danger.


WinErr: 002 No Error - Yet.


WinErr: 003 Dynamic linking error - Your mistake is now in every file.


WinErr: 004 Erroneous error - Nothing is wrong.


WinErr: 005 Multitasking attempted - System confused.


WinErr: 006 Malicious error - Desqview found on drive.


WinErr: 007 System price error - Inadequate money spent on hardware.


WinErr: 008 Broken window - Watch out for glass fragments.


WinErr: 009 Horrible bug encountered - God knows what has happened.


WinErr: 00A Promotional literature overflow - Mailbox full.


WinErr: 00B Inadequate disk space - Free at least 50MB.


WinErr: 00C Memory hog error - More RAM needed. More!


WinErr: 00D Window closed - Do not look outside.


WinErr: 00E Window open - Do not look inside.


WinErr: 00F Unexplained error - Please tell us how this happened.


WinErr: 010 Reserved for future mistakes by our developers.


WinErr: 011 Window open - Do not look outside.


WinErr: 012 Window closed - Do not look inside.


WinErr: 013 Unexpected error - Huh?


WinErr: 014 Keyboard locked - Try anything you can think of.


WinErr: 018 Unrecoverable error - System has been destroyed. Buy a new
one.
Old windows license is not Valid anymore.


WinErr: 019 User error - Not our fault. Is Not! Is Not!


WinErr: 01A Operating system overwritten - Please reinstall all your
software. We are terribly sorry


WinErr: 01B Illegal error - You are not allowed to get this error.
Next time
you will get a penalty for that


WinErr: 01C Uncertainty error - Uncertainty may be inadequate


WinErr: 01D System crash - We are unable to figure out our own code


WinErr: 01E Timing error - Please wait. And wait. And wait. And wait


WinErr: 01F Reserved for future mistakes of our developers


WinErr: 020 Error recording error codes - Remaining errors will be
lost


WinErr: 042 Virus error - A virus has been activated in a dos-box. The
virus, however, requires Windows. All tasks will automatically be
closed and
the virus will be activated again


WinErr: 079 Mouse not found - A mouse driver has not been installed.
Please
click the left mouse button to continue


WinErr: 103 Error buffer overflow - Too many errors encountered. Next
error
will not be displayed or recorded


WinErr: 678 This will end your Windows session. Do you want to play
another
game?


WinErr: 683 Time out error - Operator fell asleep while waiting for
the
system to complete boot procedure


WinErr: 815 Insufficient Memory - Only 50,312,583 Bytes available

[Paolo]

My favorite one is when a program can't locate the hard drive. If the computer started, Windows loaded, and everything else runs, I'd say the program writer better go back and look at his code.

Reminds me of the Garfield the cat poster where he makes a face and says, "Well, duh!"

[Dave]

Win err 69 is when you soil your keyboard after looking at too much online porn and the keys stick together. . . .

[Dave]

Win Err 0C 0A 0T
is a hexidecimal error caused by your cat coughing up a hairball onto the computer

[Dave]

Win Err 666
is when you curse your computer so badly that Lucifer himself appears and hauls you down to hell for saying such vile things.