Undocumented Windows 98 Special Error Codes Unearthed!!!

Windows 98 Error Codes Reference



Recently the following undocumented Windows 98 error-codes were found.

Microsoft forgot to explain them in the manuals, so they will be spread via the Internet:



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 only knows what has happened

WinErr: 00A

Promotional literature overflow - Mailbox full

WinErr: 00B

Inadequate disk space - Free at least 500MB

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: 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... Yet again.

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 - Additional errors will be lost.

WinErr: 042

Virus error - A virus has been activated in a DOS session.


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 the system to complete boot procedure.

WinErr: 815

Insufficient Memory - Only 50,312,583 bytes available.

WinErr: 844

Competing Product - Remove all competing products and install Microsoft equivalents.

WinErr: 910

Personal Data Communicate Difficulties - Could not transmit social insurance number and


or tax details back to Microsoft headquarters for further analysis.

WinErr: 960

Minimal Effort - User has only reinstalled Internet Explorer four times while trying to get it operational,


please reinstall again.

WinErr: 2000

You have not downloaded your daily Y2K and security glitch patch.

Source: Email.
 
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