[ale] Windows Undocumented Error List

[John M. Mills]

Received in yesterday's mail -- apologies if you've already seen it:

>Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 00:43:16 -0500 (EST)
>From: owner-humour-list at conductor.synapse.net
>Subject: HUM: Windows Error Codes (**)

>Undocumented Error Codes
>
>The following is a list of undocumented Windows 95 error codes which
>somehow got overlooked when printing the documentation.
>
>     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! More! 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 licence 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.  Ne=
xt
>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 - Additional 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.
>Additional errors may
>     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  t=
he
>system to complete
>     boot procedure.
>     WinErr 815: Insufficient Memory - Only 50,312,583 Bytes available
>

John M. Mills, Senior Research Engineer   --   john.m.mills at gtri.gatech.edu
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