I also forgot to mention 😫on many error code pop up Windows, you can copy the entire error message by clicking to focus the window and hitting Ctrl + C
Is it me , or is this the only youtuber in the history of youtube so far that gets straight to the point? This guy doesn't gatekeep and on top of that, doesn't do the annoying intros. I can see why he is so successful. No click bait as well as far as I know. So far at least 4 videos from this channel has helped me in dealing with computer stuff.. Pretty cool man
Yeah they broke a ton of help links by making them redirect to the main support page, which isn't helpful at all in most cases. Why they couldn't have just kept the offline Windows 7 style help documentation, I don't know.
It's simple and quick to google error codes. That usually works for me. Plus there are sometimes instructions on how to fix the problem. But I do wish Microsoft would come up with a better error system. Learning you've got a hardware problem without being told the specific hardware or even its type isn't very helpful.
I would absolutely warn people against following random instructions online to fix an error. Computers are still complicated and often actions you take have unintended consequences. So if you don't know what you're doing when following the instructions, I'd advise against following them.
oh yes sure google the error codes, and land yourself on the first search result of a person asking about the same error on the Microsoft forums and getting generic (and most of the time, useless) solutions from Microsoft "technicians" lol
Thank God somebody still remembers that they said that out loud! I've seen it happen twice now.. like I thought about it ever since I started dealing with this nonsense and then finding out what the potential possible maybe solutions could be and.. how many of them there were for every single one with zero context... And then they said it out loud at a press release.. like twice! The first time I was like.... No way... I must have maybe read that wrong or something.. although.. and then when the Xbox thing happened they just straight up set it out loud again.. and and there were people that were paying attention that time! I thought I was.. it's like.. is it better if they lied or made something up? Or that they actually just.. they just straight up don't even know LOL..@@chuckthetekkie
Thank you Joe, I shall be downloading and adding your 3rd "error" script to my existing scripts folder first thing tomorrow morning. Decades of using, coding and supporting on Windows and this is the first time I've ever heard of these three utilities! 🤯
Gotta love it when you look up an error just to get the description of the error to say "Unspecified error". How does one create a error that is unspecified yet you gave me a specific error code lol
Remember, we are talking about a big block of code. And the code might not work, but the coder doesn't know why it failed either. So they set that too. So imagine you write code to copy a file. Let's say: copy(source,destination) Your code might check if the source file exists. If not, reports that error code. The code might check if the file has been copied. If not reports that. But something might happen while the copy code runs. And it fails. So you would use the unknown error code.
@@nosuchthing8 But you'd have to know something about said error if you didn't know what happened (i.e. They unplugged their internet) you couldn't throw an error blindly. Now I do mainly write Java code so I know you can get a NoClassDefFoundError but that is still an error and does know what class is missing (thats probably more obvious for a developer but provides far more context than a hex code I have to look up especially as an end user). One of the errors I was looking for came from the Xbox login and when it went back to the Minecraft launcher is was related to WPA (Windows Product Activation) so I have a feeling they like to hide ones related to their services/api for whatever reason.
My favorite error is "An unknown error has occurred," which is the same as when my wife says, "Well, if you don't know, I'm not going to tell you!" So I just ignore it and go back to pushing random buttons in hopes for a better result. The trick is, you have to always forget everything you have done up to that point or you might accidentally repeat it.
I work in IT and had no idea this was possible. Thank you so much! Also.. the PATH variable thing has actually changed my workflow entirely on it's own. Incredible stuff.
The open cmd from address bar "trick" I didn't know. I'll be using that alot (was always copy/pasting/cd'ing the address to a manually opened cmd). Thank you!
Timely video, i user err.exe to identify the description of an error code today and was able to isolate a problem i am encountering since past few days with my client. Thank you ThioJoe.
Another solid video. Also, super random, but it was cuz of you pushing Munch in a video a few months ago I got it for my business, and it’s been indispensable for making shorts. Got another friend of mine to get it too. Wouldn’t have started using it weren’t it for you, so thanks!
We shouldn't have to do all this just to figure out the meaning of the error code. We're *human.* The descriptions should always be shown along with the codes.
Disagree. As a coder, it's a lot easier to enter a number than type in such detailed info. Easier, faster, more reliable. I'm guessing the coders include those .h files he mentioned, they are standard. And the coder can choose among the predefined error codes. So they don't use a number, they use a value in the header file. So error_cant_open_file.
Dang. This thumbnail makes me want to watch, on average, 36.8% of the video. That's better than that other thumbnail you had where I only wanted to watch, on average, 31.4% of the video.
Now a bonus question: why in the world does WIndows make us go through all these steps to look up the meanings of error codes instead of just displaying the meanings right away?
My best guess is that at some point someone made a stupid decision, and windows being backward compatible means they can't fix their problem, they can just add more stuff around it. But tbf, i use linux, so i am not really knowledgable about windows
"go through all these steps" It's literally one command my dude, "slui 0x2a error_code_here" Sure it would be better if it's always displayed but you can't complain when it's as easy as a single command that's less than 10 characters long.
@@television9233 Sure, if you know this command. And the command displays literally *the same* error window but with an extra section. I'm not talking about hard labor finding the meaning, I'm talking about stupid design.
Corrections: 1:13 That long (is an HRESULT) and short code are only the same when the "007" part is present, if that is different, the lower 4 characters do not indicate a Win32 error. 6:06 That context is not assumed, it is explicitly defined by the "007" part in the hex HRESULT code, which is the facility code for Win32 errors. ... 8:04 And now you're explaining it yourself..., would've been nice to get it right over the entire video...
A step further to improve the batch file would be to add a simple user prompt so that you can just run the batch file without having to manually open CMD. @echo off set /P "user_prompt=Enter error code: " slui.exe 0x2a %user_prompt%
You can also set your batch script to be a system variable... then just open cmd and type in error 0x32 and it will feed that line to the script and run.
Amazing. What I want to know is: how, and where do you learn all this useful information? Are you just scouring the Microsoft documentation on a daily basis and distilling and summarizing for your audience?
i notice some thing about Joe his more of or like a teacher i figure he just hates the idea because most teachers are very boring, he all ways likes to be fun which he is very fun love Joe
Errors with no explanation? Well, CUPS (Common Unix Printer Service) does it better on its web interface, where it in my example today failed to print because it got no answer from `cups-browsed` and the error message even asked "Is cups-browsed running?". When I ran cups-browsed as a command from the terminal it suddenly worked and the printer responded within seconds of me hitting "Print". Without that error message I'd been stumped.
ThioJoe thank you so much for this!!! I spend way too much time trying to figure out bizarre and weird windows error codes. Sheesh after all these years they could have come up with something more intuitive. Software is supposed to work for people not people working for software.
What you seem to overlook is that knowing the error description is not particularly useful because Microsoft errors are so infuriatingly non-specific. It's useless being told "the request is not supported" or "the file exists" if Windows doesn't tell WHAT file or WHAT request it's talking about, and it never does. That's why googling an error message with as much context as possible is usually better.
I got so fed up with Windows error codes, blue screens etc. back in the day, they drove me to Macs. Problem solved since 2004! 😉. Still enjoyed the video! 👍🙏
I guess it's good to know but there is still nothing to help someone isolate the specific program and circumstances of the error to use for troubleshooting and FIXING the problem. Since MS has only been working on OSes for about 50 years, we'll have to give them some more time.
I used to worry about error messages.. but then.. I found out that Microsoft doesn't even codify them on many occasions.. I suspected it when I traced an error I was getting through one operating system which had a hundred different possibilities.. into another operating system that was older that had about 30 possibilities.. but then on like a bunch of different occasions Microsoft has publicly admitted to not codifying them.. which I didn't I didn't really see coming I figured.. I figured they would at least lie right? I'm not sure which is better..
I probably won't have to worry about Winderps error codes ever again anyway. Probably migrating back to Linux of some form. More User freedom on that platform.
You can open the command prompt on the current folder by writing cmd there?? I've been opening it from the start menu and writing cd every time for years 🤦♂
error cod can mean the think your trying to run will not work because it's out dated it can all so mean you need to over ride it just like holding the power button it over rid e the battery you do not need to unplug it anymore you can not take it out so it's built in to your pc it will not let remove it so you have to have update resect it again movie and tv player some time i knock things out it's easy to knock things out on a pc 401 errors.
Amazing, didn't know about this. BTW, coincidentally, a few seconds before you creating the error.bat file, I DID THE EXACT SAME THING! i got the idea to save it into a batch file and name it error.bat so i can just call error! oh wait, no one asked.
What I always wonder isn't error codes. but Success code. ERROR_SUCCESS is the best thing ever. Because unix had the stupid idea of using 0 as success, but 0 is false. Probably because it was supposed to be 0 as in Ok, 0 kill. or something
I am always happy when some error code is displayed instead of like "LOL OOPSIE THERE IS ERROR! SOMTHING WENT WRONG UWU" because with an error code I can just use google.
hello ThioJoe can you make a video on how to repair any windows that wont boot i work in a repair shop and every time it's a different reason and every time windows startup repair is useless and do nothing, is there a way to 100% repair the installation (without loosing data for sure) no matter what is the problem? ( i want a tool or way to check all the windows files and make sure it boots instead of going to cmd and trying tons of commands
I only knew about the SLUI.exe tool two days ago when I ran into a problem with windows 10 pro activation 0x80072efe ( which still persists ) yeah it showed me the error message that was already displayed when the activation failed ( we can’t reach our activation servers ) but it wasn’t that helpful , did anyone resolved this error ?
Some of the error messages here remind me of some of those fake windows xp error videos made with that atom smasher windows error maker, like "Uh Oh You're Screwed" but that site doesnt exist anymore..
Thio Joe, what happend to the video about OpenAI and init.ps1? it says that you made it private, couldn't find it on your channel searched google and found it, said you turned it off, its on mobile chrome btw
How do you run the file Error-Lookup-Tool-Friendly.bat? I double-clicked on it and it appeared and then disappeared really quickly. Do I rename it to an exe like Error-Lookup-Tool-Friendly.exe and then run it after adding it to the PATH?
I figured it out. I copied the file to the same directory and renamed the copied file to thiojoeerrortool.bat. I then ran this with thiojoeerrortool 0x80070032 and thiojoeerrortool 0x32 and thiojoeerrortool 50. It worked!
I didn't work when I tried to run it in a different directory than where the file was even though I added it to the path. I think for the path change to take effect, I would need to open a new Windows Terminal Session. It worked when I opened it in new Windows Terminal Session even when the directory was different from C:\Users\peter\OneDrive - Marshall University\Documents\thiojoe\Never Wonder About Windows Errors Again, for example C:\Users\peter.
If Windows has the meanings of all the error codes, why doesn’t it simply display that to the user instead of the code? Or if even those are a bit confusing, dumb it down even more because regular people just don’t need to know that shit. Somebody technical can always look at the error logs to find the details.
