Error Messages for Windows: Find out what error code 8309 means

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Error Messages for Windows: Find out what error code 8309 means

by Brad Linder Mar 10th 2008

Windows has a tendency to spit out baffling error messages at the most inconvenient times. When you're trying to start or end a program or process, up pops a window letting you know that there's an error. But instead of explaining what you're doing wrong or how to fix it, you get an error code number.

You could rely on the age old custom of typing that code into Google and clicking on the first site that seems like it can help. Or you can install Error Messages for Windows, a tiny application that will help you figure out what's going on without firing up your web browser.

Just type your error code into the box and Error Messages for Windows will show you what the message means. Or if you want to try memorizing the complete list, you can click on the Error Code list tab and scroll through all of the known error codes.

Oh, and by the way, error code 8309 means "the user buffer is too small."

[via gHacks]

Tags: error-codes, error-messages, error-messages-for-windows

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