Filed under: OS Updates, Windows, Microsoft
Vista error message random acts of vandalism
With every launch of a new Microsoft operating system comes two things: - New error messages
- A new ubiquitous advertising campaign.
The error message on the stickers? Windows Vista's most baffling communication: "Error: The operation completed successfully."
[via Boing Boing]
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...

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Grammar freak said 11:45AM on 3-26-2007
This is pretty retarded. I'm pretty sure that this error dates to at least Win98, and even then I'm not sure if it's an windows error or whether it's something from a different, poorly-coded application.
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RP said 12:25PM on 3-26-2007
A funnier message would be the super-annoying UAC (User Account Control) dialog. From the Apple Vista commercial: "You are coming to a sad realization -- Allow or Deny?". This video cracks me up -- because it's so sad/frustrating: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2bByYgk4dk
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nickww said 10:43PM on 4-23-2007
Security Center service failed to start due to the following error: The account specified for this service is different from the account specified for other services running in the same process.
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nickww said 9:38PM on 4-23-2007
The Security Center service failed to start due to the following error: The account specified for this service is different from the account specified for other services running in the same process.
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