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Decoding Windows Error Messages

WinErr: 000 Not Errors found [Retry] [Reboot]
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 - OS/2 found on drive
WinErr: 007 System price error - Not enough 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 80MB
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: 016 Unable to exit Windows. Try door !
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: 020 Error recording error codes - Remaining errors will be lost.
WinErr: 021 Error displaying error message. You cannot see this error.
WinErr: 026 Error - Your computer is too fast for Windows. Decrease the speed of your computer.
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: 049 Cannot open Windows - Bugs will come in.
WinErr: 055 Hard disk full. Windows cannot write a swap file. Buy another hard disk.
WinErr: 056 CPU is too tired to continue
WinErr: 057 Processor meltdown. Too hot inside a computer.
WinErr: 077 Joystick not found. Please click joystick button 1 to continue
WinErr: 078 Keyboard not found. Please press F1 to continue
WinErr: 079 Mouse not found - A mouse driver has not been installed. Please click the left mouse button to continue.
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: 703 Error exiting Windows. System does not fit through that window. A window with a size 169 Mb is needed.
WinErr: 815 Insufficient Memory - Only 64,312,583 Bytes available
WinErr: FFF Error buffer full - Windows cannot display any more error messages.

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