Never Wonder About Weird Windows Error Codes Again
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- Опубликовано: 2 авг 2024
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0:00 - Intro:
1:02 - Hex vs Decimal Codes
2:28 - Other Types of Codes
2:57 - 3 Ways to Look Up Codes
3:07 - SLUI.exe
4:38 - Batch File Trick
5:26 - Certutil.exe
6:13 - Microsoft Error Lookup Tool
6:55 - Looking Up a Long Code
8:26 - Looking Up a Base Code
9:31 - Script to Improve Output Format
9:59 - The "HRESULT" Sections
11:02 - Tip: Add Tools to PATH Variable
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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
Say what? All this time I've been using a screenshot OCR tool to get the error message text lol
That's what i was interested in is if we needed to manually write the error code to those command line utilities.
Now I just go: bing chat explain error 0x80070032
Thats really useful - maybe you could make a youtube short to let more ppl know
This tip is actually the most useful one LOL
I once saw ThioJoe delete system32 and reinstall it file by file in 5 minutes. It was crazy.
What how
@@Fujinonit was revealed to me in a dream
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He also downloaded some new ram 😂
Loving the new content tho
Awesome stuff Joe! So much better than clicking Event Log Online... just to be redirected to Microsoft web page with Nothing to do with my error 🤬
yup
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
I appreciate that you unlike some other channels don't just go "This is a bit technical so we will just ignore that..." but instead actually explain the technical stuff which is very useful to me as a technical person!
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
For the Xbox error codes I seem to get, not even Microsoft knows what the error means.
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
man your animations are on point! are you using new software to do your videos or have you just gotten 10X better
Been using the same software, i guess just been spending extra time on them
@Mugenhollster any popular software can do this editing (my personal favorite is camtasia there is also filmora, these are beginners friendly)
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.
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.
How long you have come from “upgrade your ps3 to a ps4 for free” to this the new educational content is to die for and became essential for me keep up the good work
Holy, this vid is really good. Also, very kind to make bat and powershell scripts for us to use!
Thio Joe never fails to fill us with windows installation files 😊
I don't understand it 😢
Worth having notifications turned to all on this channel
Scary error codes.. perfect for upcoming Halloween. (Thank you, I will definitely try these) 😉
How will u use them for Halloween?
Thanks men! Your tips literally save me every day 😊
I miss the days of: "This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down."
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.
Excellent video. I knew about slui.exe but not the other two options.
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.
🤣🤣
My favourite is one I've seen a fair bit lately. "An error occurred: the operation completed successfully."
@@steeviebops "You died! (Player) was slain by healing" -Minecraft
Great tips, as usual. Thanks!
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!
Glad to hear it 👍
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Thanks Thio Joe, this was a great video!
Need that tuxedo video which blows the mind at end it's always fun Thio Joe always laughs at end
Windows has to learn from linux how to show error. Errors in linux are detailed and you know what you messed up.
Good video, and as a bonus I learned how to start cmd in the folder I'm in.
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.
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.
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!
Me too. I hope I remember next time it's relevant.
Very useful tool. Thanks!
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.
This guy always makes my day :)
Thanks Joe!
Man used these types of tools in my IIT career . Nostalgic
Thank you for this content you Windows magician 😁 this might help me at my job
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.
as someone who does win dev I think I'll find this really useful thanks!
Fun tip: You can type cmd into the path address bar in Explorer to open cmd into the folder you were currently in.
I literally say and show that 😭
@@ThioJoe I missed that then. Sorry!
GREAT video!!!
Nice! Thx TJ. 10/10
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.
Really nice content
So much grateful 🎉
I’ve always wanted to ask, why do you source your stock video footage in that way? I haven’t seen any other youtuber do that.
Great video as always.
I have the same question
6:16 Ooh, I didn't realize err.exe was public now. Cool. (I used it internally back in Windows 7 as part of the Windows build system.)
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?
Thanks!
For the batch file @5:30 can you set it to run and ask for the user input so you just type the error code instead of error error code
You are amazing👍
The hresult might mean, handle to a result.
Amazing, thank you sir!
NGL. This kind of feels like the same amount of energy as googleing them. I think a better solution would be to find a way to display the full error discretion when the message shows. That would be a wonderful tool.
I hope @ThioJoe make a small software/exe that has a buttons to download these kind of useful resources.
This gave me flashbacks to when I wanted to make my own event log. This looks like it just reads the event descriptor files. In the end I just used eventcreate.
I gave the video a giant thumbs-up terrorizing pedestrians. 😂
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
Great video as usual but I'm sorry to say, i think those thumbs up images overshadowed the whole video and stole the spotlight. XD
Got any tips on the display settings not being able to open on windows 11?
Apparently, my user profile is the problem as a new user profile does not have the issue.
Microjunk support tells me the only way to fix it is to factory reset my laptop...which I refuse to do, or to just move all my files, installs, profiles for programs, etc etc etc over to the new profile - basically factory resetting without factory resetting.
Top quality content as always!
I just got the notification for this
My favorite error is the oops something went wrong screen, most useful error screen ever 10/10 🤣
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%
I will be using your batch file
And due this, I'm now more excited for my computer to go full of errors than to prevent it from happening.
Already been using the downloaded error lookup tool with the path env
Theo your describing a doctoral thesis once submitted at Princetons Institute of Advanced Studies for Computer Science. That was 1958...
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.
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.
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8:04 And now you're explaining it yourself..., would've been nice to get it right over the entire video...
It is assumed in a base code but not HRESULTs.
The thumbnail:
"Oh hey, my error is Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics!"
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! 👍🙏
Good video.
I sense ThioJoe is reading the script from a teleprompt.
There is also the NTSTATUS error code such as 0xC0000005 (The instruction at 0x%p referenced memory at 0x%p. The memory could not be %s.)
I didn't get at all what you used said there.
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
i tried it and all mine says is 'activation was successful' and your windows is genuine, on windows 7 ultimate. i t doesn't seem to care what i put after slui. i can put just slui and it does the same thing. is it because it's an older windows?
I have no idea, Windows 7 has been out of support for years so I don't even test on it anymore
@@ThioJoe oops. i realized i forgot the 0x2a. lol 0x2a 0x80070032 works, but without 0x2a it says activation was successful which threw me off. so it works. thanks
I will never be confused by the nile curse error in windows ever again
Any solution that does not involve the command prompt and all the technical stuff?
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.
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 ?
_" Never Wonder About Windows Errors Again "_ - yes, absolutely. Firstly, "never wonder about Windows errors" - they are like rain in tropics, or snow in Arctic. An unavoidable part and parcel of the system, can't do anything about them, so no use in "wondering". "Just grin and ignore it."
Then there's this "never again" part - which I also support, four-square. Get a Mac, and live a blissful "never again" life. Plain and simple, innit? ;-)
Just like I did back in '97 - my missus got herself a new (and first in our home) computer, an HP Pavilion or Shed, can't remember - and after two weeks of "wondering about" this "wonder of wonders", I decided that MY first computer (purchased few months latter) will be a Mac.
Never regretted it.
I know RUclipsrs frequently do this, but now I witnessed that the thumbnail changed 3 times
Nice
This is some pretty in depth computer science stuff mate. Great work. :)
Curious - How does one contact MS by phone? I have an unresolved issue that has been impossible to resolve with my permeant 10 license. Thanks Joe
For activation issues, run 'slui.exe 4' and it will give you a list of phone numbers to call.
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.
The thumbnail is so real though.
Damn crazy
The thumbnail tho 😂
Do I need admin privileges to run SLUI in CMD?
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 thought this was going to introduce some app that creates a clickable link below the error about what it means or something, or straight up directly says what's up
[SYSTEM ERROR]
YOUR HARD DRIVE IS BRICKED!
[OK] (Grayed out)
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 🤦♂
Not just cmd, powershell too
I'm more interested in that last bat file and the process of writing it with GPT than in the Windows errors.
GPT4 is pretty good at writing scripts that modify the behaviour of a given program, and even just writing simple scripts. You can have it write large programs if you have the patience, though this will take quite a bit more trial and error because of its memory limitations.
I personally like to use it to write simple Python scripts that automate menial tasks I'll occasionally come across, like file sorting, file renaming and such.
As an egypt nerd i love the thumbnail.
Damn Pharaohs never could make the transition from DOS to windows.
nice
Question, can u make video how to make vbs script run as admin. I want it to ask for it when run, cuz my script gets error due it. I dont want to run cmd command or bat file cuz I want to send vbs script to others. (No its not a harmful script. Its optinazation script)
I’m not very familiar with that
Why did the thumbnail change?
The info is really nice though, I've used the Mircrosoft Error lookup tool before.
RUclips's new feature to test the performance of different thumbnails
@@ThioJoe I see, thank you for explaining!
I love you ❤️
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..