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Top 10 most ridiculous Windows Vista error messages – priceless!

Posted on December 16th, 2007 by Editorial Staff in Listopia, Operating Systems

Windows Vista is always in the news on the blogosphere about how effective it performs. No matter what version of Vista you may be running, it’s possible that you may have already seen these error messages more than once and may well probably be fed up with them!

(I have no idea how the above pic came about, but you’ve been encouraged!)

More following the jump…

The device is error?

Try figuring this out:

You do not have permission?

Extended error?

Windows Media Player error?

Unknown Device Installed?

Oh dear, so many error messages to choose from… I believe my favourite out of the ten would be the ‘do not have permission to view the permission setting’ error and my runner-up would be the “extended error has occurred”. Still not being a Vista user myself, can anyone tell me if the recent service pack update has helped in avoiding these errors at all?

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11 Comments »

  • Indrek said:

    Re the “upgrade to GNU/Linux” one – pfft, photoshopped.

  • julius caesar said:

    Your creative department is doing its job!

  • Linux e adolescentes de hoje | Nebulosa Nerd's Bar said:

    [...] para ilustrar com tinta a √≥leo o tema, nada melhor que uma colherada de 10 mensagens de erro mais grotescas do Windows Vista. Porque √© impag√°vel n√£o ver um log do que aconteceu e se contentar com um… [...]

  • Rudah said:

    A √∫nica que n√£o √© verdade, eu acho, √© a “You are strongly encouraged to upgrade to GNU/Linux.”, mas o resto acho que √© verdade sim.

  • Editorial Staff (author) said:

    Thanks for your comment, that one was one of our favourite!

  • O Windows Vista praticamente n√£o possui erros. « Fanboysdewindows’s Weblog said:

    [...] Aonde isso ???? O Windows Vista é um sistema que possui dezenas, centenas de erros, e AQUI estão alguns dos principais erros do Windows [...]

  • @vinicius_rs said:

    Very funny! WMP error is the best.

  • peter said:

    all photoshopped, all the words have a background which is not white, bad job

  • Syl said:

    These can also be created using Microsofts SDK tools like Visual Basic and Visual C++. But it looks like at least some of these messages are real.

  • alli said:

    when my laptop got a virus this past September, I once got a screen from vista that read "catastrophic failure"…best worded message I have ever gotten from a computer!

  • Ripiz said:

    Please, next time use Google before making stupid statements.
    Other formats than BMP and TGA dis sort colors around letters, as they compress image

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