Undocumented Windows 95 error codes
Recently the following undocumented Windows 95 error-codes were found.
Microsoft forgot to explain them in the manuals:
* 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 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: 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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