TAKE THE MYSTERY OUT OF WINDOWS ERROR MESSAGES

Windows is notorious for opaque error messages. What could be worse than an illegal operation message with numbers and references to the "kernel?" Yikes! It's OK, you can figure them out, maybe.

There are at least two programs that will help you interpret these messages. Both WinErr 1.0 and MS Windows Error Messages are free. They're available at, respectively:

http://camtech2000.net/Pages/WinErrs.html

http://www.gregorybraun.com/

 

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