[rec.humor.funny] Win98 Error Codes

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Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny
From: nhevraar@jrocvkvr.pbz (April)
Subject: Win98 Error Codes
Keywords: smirk, computers, heard it, forwarded
Message-ID: <Fps3.s1s@argshaal.pbz>
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 19:30:00 PDT


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 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: 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.
             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-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
             the system to complete boot procedure.
  WinErr: 815

             Insufficient Memory - Only 50,312,583 bytes available

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