Undocumented Windows 95 errors

Undocumented Windows 95 errors

The following is a list of undocumented Windows 95 error codes which somehow got overlooked when printing the documentation.

• 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 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 294:BlackMail Error - $500 to Gates or your computer gets screwed
• WinErr 294b:BlackMail Error - $500 to Gates or I'll show your wife the JPG's you just downloaded
• WinErr 39c:Disk Error in drive a: - Although your disk is in perfect condition (I just formatted it), I don't like it any more
• WinErr 625:Working Error - The system has been working perfectly for the past ten minutes
• 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 72a:Crucial Halt - Hang on, WHAT was that?
• WinErr 72b:Memory Error - What? Tell me again.
• WinErr 815:Insufficient Memory - Only 50,312,583 Bytes available
• WinErr 902:Screen Error - The system is working perfectly, I'm not lying, your monitor is wrong
• WinErr 983:Hard Disk Error - The files on the hard disk were neatly arranged and fully optimised, so I had to mess them up and put a couple of hundred .TMP files all over the place