Subject: Undocumented Windows 9x Errors
Recently the following undocumented error-codes were
found.
Microsoft refers to these as "undocumented features":
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 (particularly amusing if you know that Microsoft actually used to check for the presence of Quarterdeck's memory manager, and would put up an error message if it was in your CONFIG.SYS... The remedy was to rename the program to another name, but it was still one of the first times people really started to worry about M$.)
WinErr: 007 System price error - Inadequate money spent on hardware (also known as the "Packard Hell" error)
WinErr: 008 Broken window - Watch out for glass fragments
WinErr: 009 Horrible bug encountered - God knows what has happened. Please email Him for further explanation.
WinErr: 00A Promotional literature overflow - Mailbox full
WinErr: 00B Inadequate disk space - Free at least 5GB
WinErr: 00C Memory hog error - More Ram needed. More! More! More! (accompanied by pig squeals if you have a sound card.)
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 We have a special $2.00 a minute line just for this purpose.
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. (accompanied by sounds of laughter if you have a sound card.)
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. (Also known as the "Heisenberg error")
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: 100 Destroy Entire World? OK? (There's never a "CANCEL" button for some reason.)
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
WinErr: 815 Insufficient Memory - Only 50,312,583 Bytes available
WinErr: 817 Netscape Detected. Reinstall Windows.