WINDOWS VISTA ERROR CODES
Compiled by Markus Diersbock

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WINDOWS ERROR CODES

Code: 0
Description: The operation completed successfully

Code: 1
Description: Incorrect function

Code: 2
Description: The system cannot find the file specified

Code: 3
Description: The system cannot find the path specified

Code: 4
Description: The system cannot open the file

Code: 5
Description: Access is denied

Code: 6
Description: The handle is invalid

Code: 7
Description: The storage control blocks were destroyed

Code: 8
Description: Not enough storage is available to process this command

Code: 9
Description: The storage control block address is invalid

Code: 10
Description: The environment is incorrect

Code: 11
Description: An attempt was made to load a program with an incorrect format

Code: 12
Description: The access code is invalid

Code: 13
Description: The data is invalid

Code: 14
Description: Not enough storage is available to complete this operation

Code: 15
Description: The system cannot find the drive specified

Code: 16
Description: The directory cannot be removed

Code: 17
Description: The system cannot move the file to a different disk drive

Code: 18
Description: There are no more files

Code: 19
Description: The media is write protected

Code: 20
Description: The system cannot find the device specified

Code: 21
Description: The device is not ready

Code: 22
Description: The device does not recognize the command

Code: 23
Description: Data error (cyclic redundancy check)

Code: 24
Description: The program issued a command but the command length is incorrect

Code: 25
Description: The drive cannot locate a specific area or track on the disk

Code: 26
Description: The specified disk or diskette cannot be accessed

Code: 27
Description: The drive cannot find the sector requested

Code: 28
Description: The printer is out of paper

Code: 29
Description: The system cannot write to the specified device

Code: 30
Description: The system cannot read from the specified device

Code: 31
Description: A device attached to the system is not functioning

Code: 32
Description: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process

Code: 33
Description: The process cannot access the file because another process has locked a portion of the file

Code: 34
Description: The wrong diskette is in the drive. Insert %2 (Volume Serial Number: %3) into drive %1

Code: 36
Description: Too many files opened for sharing

Code: 38
Description: Reached the end of the file

Code: 39
Description: The disk is full

Code: 50
Description: The request is not supported

Code: 51
Description: Windows cannot find the network path. Verify that the network path is correct and the destination computer is not busy or turned off. If Windows still cannot find the network path, contact your network administrator

Code: 52
Description: You were not connected because a duplicate name exists on the network. Go to System in the Control Panel to change the computer name and try again

Code: 53
Description: The network path was not found

Code: 54
Description: The network is busy

Code: 55
Description: The specified network resource or device is no longer available

Code: 56
Description: The network BIOS command limit has been reached

Code: 57
Description: A network adapter hardware error occurred

Code: 58
Description: The specified server cannot perform the requested operation

Code: 59
Description: An unexpected network error occurred

Code: 60
Description: The remote adapter is not compatible

Code: 61
Description: The printer queue is full

Code: 62
Description: Space to store the file waiting to be printed is not available on the server

Code: 63
Description: Your file waiting to be printed was deleted

Code: 64
Description: The specified network name is no longer available

Code: 65
Description: Network access is denied

Code: 66
Description: The network resource type is not correct

Code: 67
Description: The network name cannot be found

Code: 68
Description: The name limit for the local computer network adapter card was exceeded

Code: 69
Description: The network BIOS session limit was exceeded

Code: 70
Description: The remote server has been paused or is in the process of being started

Code: 71
Description: No more connections can be made to this remote computer at this time because there are already as many connections as the computer can accept

Code: 72
Description: The specified printer or disk device has been paused

Code: 80
Description: The file exists

Code: 82
Description: The directory or file cannot be created

Code: 83
Description: Fail on INT 24

Code: 84
Description: Storage to process this request is not available

Code: 85
Description: The local device name is already in use

Code: 86
Description: The specified network password is not correct

Code: 87
Description: The parameter is incorrect

Code: 88
Description: A write fault occurred on the network

Code: 89
Description: The system cannot start another process at this time

Code: 100
Description: Cannot create another system semaphore

Code: 101
Description: The exclusive semaphore is owned by another process

Code: 102
Description: The semaphore is set and cannot be closed

Code: 103
Description: The semaphore cannot be set again

Code: 104
Description: Cannot request exclusive semaphores at interrupt time

Code: 105
Description: The previous ownership of this semaphore has ended

Code: 106
Description: Insert the diskette for drive %1

Code: 107
Description: The program stopped because an alternate diskette was not inserted

Code: 108
Description: The disk is in use or locked by another process

Code: 109
Description: The pipe has been ended

Code: 110
Description: The system cannot open the device or file specified

Code: 111
Description: The file name is too long

Code: 112
Description: There is not enough space on the disk

Code: 113
Description: No more internal file identifiers available

Code: 114
Description: The target internal file identifier is incorrect

Code: 117
Description: The IOCTL call made by the application program is not correct

Code: 118
Description: The verify-on-write switch parameter value is not correct

Code: 119
Description: The system does not support the command requested

Code: 120
Description: This function is not supported on this system

Code: 121
Description: The semaphore timeout period has expired

Code: 122
Description: The data area passed to a system call is too small

Code: 123
Description: The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect

Code: 124
Description: The system call level is not correct

Code: 125
Description: The disk has no volume label

Code: 126
Description: The specified module could not be found

Code: 127
Description: The specified procedure could not be found

Code: 128
Description: There are no child processes to wait for

Code: 129
Description: The %1 application cannot be run in Win32 mode

Code: 130
Description: Attempt to use a file handle to an open disk partition for an operation other than raw disk I/O

Code: 131
Description: An attempt was made to move the file pointer before the beginning of the file

Code: 132
Description: The file pointer cannot be set on the specified device or file

Code: 133
Description: A JOIN or SUBST command cannot be used for a drive that contains previously joined drives

Code: 134
Description: An attempt was made to use a JOIN or SUBST command on a drive that has already been joined

Code: 135
Description: An attempt was made to use a JOIN or SUBST command on a drive that has already been substituted

Code: 136
Description: The system tried to delete the JOIN of a drive that is not joined

Code: 137
Description: The system tried to delete the substitution of a drive that is not substituted

Code: 138
Description: The system tried to join a drive to a directory on a joined drive

Code: 139
Description: The system tried to substitute a drive to a directory on a substituted drive

Code: 140
Description: The system tried to join a drive to a directory on a substituted drive

Code: 141
Description: The system tried to SUBST a drive to a directory on a joined drive

Code: 142
Description: The system cannot perform a JOIN or SUBST at this time

Code: 143
Description: The system cannot join or substitute a drive to or for a directory on the same drive

Code: 144
Description: The directory is not a subdirectory of the root directory

Code: 145
Description: The directory is not empty

Code: 146
Description: The path specified is being used in a substitute

Code: 147
Description: Not enough resources are available to process this command

Code: 148
Description: The path specified cannot be used at this time

Code: 149
Description: An attempt was made to join or substitute a drive for which a directory on the drive is the target of a previous substitute

Code: 150
Description: System trace information was not specified in your CONFIG.SYS file, or tracing is disallowed

Code: 151
Description: The number of specified semaphore events for DosMuxSemWait is not correct

Code: 152
Description: DosMuxSemWait did not execute; too many semaphores are already set

Code: 153
Description: The DosMuxSemWait list is not correct

Code: 154
Description: The volume label you entered exceeds the label character limit of the target file system

Code: 155
Description: Cannot create another thread

Code: 156
Description: The recipient process has refused the signal

Code: 157
Description: The segment is already discarded and cannot be locked

Code: 158
Description: The segment is already unlocked

Code: 159
Description: The address for the thread ID is not correct

Code: 160
Description: The argument string passed to DosExecPgm is not correct

Code: 161
Description: The specified path is invalid

Code: 162
Description: A signal is already pending

Code: 164
Description: No more threads can be created in the system

Code: 167
Description: Unable to lock a region of a file

Code: 170
Description: The requested resource is in use

Code: 173
Description: A lock request was not outstanding for the supplied cancel region

Code: 174
Description: The file system does not support atomic changes to the lock type

Code: 180
Description: The system detected a segment number that was not correct

Code: 182
Description: The operating system cannot run %1

Code: 183
Description: Cannot create a file when that file already exists

Code: 186
Description: The flag passed is not correct

Code: 187
Description: The specified system semaphore name was not found

Code: 188
Description: The operating system cannot run %1

Code: 189
Description: The operating system cannot run %1

Code: 190
Description: The operating system cannot run %1

Code: 191
Description: Cannot run %1 in Win32 mode

Code: 192
Description: The operating system cannot run %1

Code: 193
Description: %1 is not a valid Win32 application

Code: 194
Description: The operating system cannot run %1

Code: 195
Description: The operating system cannot run %1

Code: 196
Description: The operating system cannot run this application program

Code: 197
Description: The operating system is not presently configured to run this application

Code: 198
Description: The operating system cannot run %1

Code: 199
Description: The operating system cannot run this application program

Code: 200
Description: The code segment cannot be greater than or equal to 64K

Code: 201
Description: The operating system cannot run %1

Code: 202
Description: The operating system cannot run %1

Code: 203
Description: The system could not find the environment option that was entered

Code: 205
Description: No process in the command subtree has a signal handler

Code: 206
Description: The filename or extension is too long

Code: 207
Description: The ring 2 stack is in use

Code: 208
Description: The global filename characters, * or ?, are entered incorrectly or too many global filename characters are specified

Code: 209
Description: The signal being posted is not correct

Code: 210
Description: The signal handler cannot be set

Code: 212
Description: The segment is locked and cannot be reallocated

Code: 214
Description: Too many dynamic-link modules are attached to this program or dynamic-link module

Code: 215
Description: Cannot nest calls to LoadModule

Code: 216
Description: The image file %1 is valid, but is for a machine type other than the current machine

Code: 230
Description: The pipe state is invalid

Code: 231
Description: All pipe instances are busy

Code: 232
Description: The pipe is being closed

Code: 233
Description: No process is on the other end of the pipe

Code: 234
Description: More data is available

Code: 240
Description: The session was canceled

Code: 254
Description: The specified extended attribute name was invalid

Code: 255
Description: The extended attributes are inconsistent

Code: 258
Description: The wait operation timed out

Code: 259
Description: No more data is available

Code: 266
Description: The copy functions cannot be used

Code: 267
Description: The directory name is invalid

Code: 275
Description: The extended attributes did not fit in the buffer

Code: 276
Description: The extended attribute file on the mounted file system is corrupt

Code: 277
Description: The extended attribute table file is full

Code: 278
Description: The specified extended attribute handle is invalid

Code: 282
Description: The mounted file system does not support extended attributes

Code: 288
Description: Attempt to release mutex not owned by caller

Code: 298
Description: Too many posts were made to a semaphore

Code: 299
Description: Only part of a ReadProcessMemory or WriteProcessMemory request was completed

Code: 300
Description: The oplock request is denied

Code: 301
Description: An invalid oplock acknowledgment was received by the system

Code: 302
Description: The volume is too fragmented to complete this operation

Code: 303
Description: The file cannot be opened because it is in the process of being deleted

Code: 317
Description: The system cannot find message text for message number 0x%1 in the message file for %2

Code: 487
Description: Attempt to access invalid address

Code: 534
Description: Arithmetic result exceeded 32 bits

Code: 535
Description: There is a process on other end of the pipe

Code: 536
Description: Waiting for a process to open the other end of the pipe

Code: 994
Description: Access to the extended attribute was denied

Code: 995
Description: The I/O operation has been aborted because of either a thread exit or an application request

Code: 996
Description: Overlapped I/O event is not in a signaled state

Code: 997
Description: Overlapped I/O operation is in progress

Code: 998
Description: Invalid access to memory location

Code: 999
Description: Error performing inpage operation

Code: 1001
Description: Recursion too deep; the stack overflowed

Code: 1002
Description: The window cannot act on the sent message

Code: 1003
Description: Cannot complete this function

Code: 1004
Description: Invalid flags

Code: 1005
Description: The volume does not contain a recognized file system. Please make sure that all required file system drivers are loaded and that the volume is not corrupted

Code: 1006
Description: The volume for a file has been externally altered so that the opened file is no longer valid

Code: 1007
Description: The requested operation cannot be performed in full-screen mode

Code: 1008
Description: An attempt was made to reference a token that does not exist

Code: 1009
Description: The configuration registry database is corrupt

Code: 1010
Description: The configuration registry key is invalid

Code: 1011
Description: The configuration registry key could not be opened

Code: 1012
Description: The configuration registry key could not be read

Code: 1013
Description: The configuration registry key could not be written

Code: 1014
Description: One of the files in the registry database had to be recovered by use of a log or alternate copy. The recovery was successful

Code: 1015
Description: The registry is corrupted. The structure of one of the files containing registry data is corrupted, or the system's memory image of the file is corrupted, or the file could not be recovered because the alternate copy or log was absent or corrupted

Code: 1016
Description: An I/O operation initiated by the registry failed unrecoverably. The registry could not read in, or write out, or flush, one of the files that contain the system's image of the registry

Code: 1017
Description: The system has attempted to load or restore a file into the registry, but the specified file is not in a registry file format

Code: 1018
Description: Illegal operation attempted on a registry key that has been marked for deletion

Code: 1019
Description: System could not allocate the required space in a registry log

Code: 1020
Description: Cannot create a symbolic link in a registry key that already has subkeys or values

Code: 1021
Description: Cannot create a stable subkey under a volatile parent key

Code: 1022
Description: A notify change request is being completed and the information is not being returned in the caller's buffer. The caller now needs to enumerate the files to find the changes

Code: 1051
Description: A stop control has been sent to a service that other running services are dependent on

Code: 1052
Description: The requested control is not valid for this service

Code: 1053
Description: The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion

Code: 1054
Description: A thread could not be created for the service

Code: 1055
Description: The service database is locked

Code: 1056
Description: An instance of the service is already running

Code: 1057
Description: The account name is invalid or does not exist, or the password is invalid for the account name specified

Code: 1058
Description: The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or because it has no enabled devices associated with it

Code: 1059
Description: Circular service dependency was specified

Code: 1060
Description: The specified service does not exist as an installed service

Code: 1061
Description: The service cannot accept control messages at this time

Code: 1062
Description: The service has not been started

Code: 1063
Description: The service process could not connect to the service controller

Code: 1064
Description: An exception occurred in the service when handling the control request

Code: 1065
Description: The database specified does not exist

Code: 1066
Description: The service has returned a service-specific error code

Code: 1067
Description: The process terminated unexpectedly

Code: 1068
Description: The dependency service or group failed to start

Code: 1069
Description: The service did not start due to a logon failure

Code: 1070
Description: After starting, the service hung in a start-pending state

Code: 1071
Description: The specified service database lock is invalid

Code: 1072
Description: The specified service has been marked for deletion

Code: 1073
Description: The specified service already exists

Code: 1074
Description: The system is currently running with the last-known-good configuration

Code: 1075
Description: The dependency service does not exist or has been marked for deletion

Code: 1076
Description: The current boot has already been accepted for use as the last-known-good control set

Code: 1077
Description: No attempts to start the service have been made since the last boot

Code: 1078
Description: The name is already in use as either a service name or a service display name

Code: 1079
Description: The account specified for this service is different from the account specified for other services running in the same process

Code: 1080
Description: Failure actions can only be set for Win32 services, not for drivers

Code: 1081
Description: This service runs in the same process as the service control manager. Therefore, the service control manager cannot take action if this service's process terminates unexpectedly

Code: 1082
Description: No recovery program has been configured for this service

Code: 1083
Description: The executable program that this service is configured to run in does not implement the service

Code: 1084
Description: This service cannot be started in Safe Mode

Code: 1100
Description: The physical end of the tape has been reached

Code: 1101
Description: A tape access reached a filemark

Code: 1102
Description: The beginning of the tape or a partition was encountered

Code: 1103
Description: A tape access reached the end of a set of files

Code: 1104
Description: No more data is on the tape

Code: 1105
Description: Tape could not be partitioned

Code: 1106
Description: When accessing a new tape of a multivolume partition, the current block size is incorrect

Code: 1107
Description: Tape partition information could not be found when loading a tape

Code: 1108
Description: Unable to lock the media eject mechanism

Code: 1109
Description: Unable to unload the media

Code: 1110
Description: The media in the drive may have changed

Code: 1111
Description: The I/O bus was reset

Code: 1112
Description: No media in drive

Code: 1113
Description: No mapping for the Unicode character exists in the target multi-byte code page

Code: 1114
Description: A dynamic link library (DLL) initialization routine failed

Code: 1115
Description: A system shutdown is in progress

Code: 1116
Description: Unable to abort the system shutdown because no shutdown was in progress

Code: 1117
Description: The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error

Code: 1118
Description: No serial device was successfully initialized. The serial driver will unload

Code: 1119
Description: Unable to open a device that was sharing an interrupt request (IRQ) with other devices. At least one other device that uses that IRQ was already opened

Code: 1120
Description: A serial I/O operation was completed by another write to the serial port. (The IOCTL_SERIAL_XOFF_COUNTER reached zero.)

Code: 1121
Description: A serial I/O operation completed because the timeout period expired. (The IOCTL_SERIAL_XOFF_COUNTER did not reach zero.)

Code: 1122
Description: No ID address mark was found on the floppy disk

Code: 1123
Description: Mismatch between the floppy disk sector ID field and the floppy disk controller track address

Code: 1124
Description: The floppy disk controller reported an error that is not recognized by the floppy disk driver

Code: 1125
Description: The floppy disk controller returned inconsistent results in its registers

Code: 1126
Description: While accessing the hard disk, a recalibrate operation failed, even after retries

Code: 1127
Description: While accessing the hard disk, a disk operation failed even after retries

Code: 1128
Description: While accessing the hard disk, a disk controller reset was needed, but even that failed

Code: 1129
Description: Physical end of tape encountered

Code: 1130
Description: Not enough server storage is available to process this command

Code: 1131
Description: A potential deadlock condition has been detected

Code: 1132
Description: The base address or the file offset specified does not have the proper alignment

Code: 1140
Description: An attempt to change the system power state was vetoed by another application or driver

Code: 1141
Description: The system BIOS failed an attempt to change the system power state

Code: 1142
Description: An attempt was made to create more links on a file than the file system supports

Code: 1150
Description: The specified program requires a newer version of Windows

Code: 1151
Description: The specified program is not a Windows or MS-DOS program

Code: 1152
Description: Cannot start more than one instance of the specified program

Code: 1153
Description: The specified program was written for an earlier version of Windows

Code: 1154
Description: One of the library files needed to run this application is damaged

Code: 1155
Description: No application is associated with the specified file for this operation

Code: 1156
Description: An error occurred in sending the command to the application

Code: 1157
Description: One of the library files needed to run this application cannot be found

Code: 1158
Description: The current process has used all of its system allowance of handles for Window Manager objects

Code: 1159
Description: The message can be used only with synchronous operations

Code: 1160
Description: The indicated source element has no media

Code: 1161
Description: The indicated destination element already contains media

Code: 1162
Description: The indicated element does not exist

Code: 1163
Description: The indicated element is part of a magazine that is not present

Code: 1164
Description: The indicated device requires reinitialization due to hardware errors

Code: 1165
Description: The device has indicated that cleaning is required before further operations are attempted

Code: 1166
Description: The device has indicated that its door is open

Code: 1167
Description: The device is not connected

Code: 1168
Description: Element not found

Code: 1169
Description: There was no match for the specified key in the index

Code: 1170
Description: The property set specified does not exist on the object

Code: 1171
Description: The point passed to GetMouseMovePointsEx is not in the buffer

Code: 1172
Description: The tracking (workstation) service is not running

Code: 1173
Description: The Volume ID could not be found

Code: 1175
Description: Unable to remove the file to be replaced

Code: 1176
Description: Unable to move the replacement file to the file to be replaced. The file to be replaced has retained its original name

Code: 1177
Description: Unable to move the replacement file to the file to be replaced. The file to be replaced has been renamed using the backup name

Code: 1178
Description: The volume change journal is being deleted

Code: 1179
Description: The volume change journal is not active

Code: 1180
Description: A file was found, but it may not be the correct file

Code: 1181
Description: The journal entry has been deleted from the journal

Code: 1200
Description: The specified device name is invalid

Code: 1201
Description: The device is not currently connected but it is a remembered connection

Code: 1202
Description: The local device name has a remembered connection to another network resource

Code: 1203
Description: No network provider accepted the given network path

Code: 1204
Description: The specified network provider name is invalid

Code: 1205
Description: Unable to open the network connection profile

Code: 1206
Description: The network connection profile is corrupted

Code: 1207
Description: Cannot enumerate a noncontainer

Code: 1208
Description: An extended error has occurred

Code: 1209
Description: The format of the specified group name is invalid

Code: 1210
Description: The format of the specified computer name is invalid

Code: 1211
Description: The format of the specified event name is invalid

Code: 1212
Description: The format of the specified domain name is invalid

Code: 1213
Description: The format of the specified service name is invalid

Code: 1214
Description: The format of the specified network name is invalid

Code: 1215
Description: The format of the specified share name is invalid

Code: 1216
Description: The format of the specified password is invalid

Code: 1217
Description: The format of the specified message name is invalid

Code: 1218
Description: The format of the specified message destination is invalid

Code: 1219
Description: Multiple connections to a server or shared resource by the same user, using more than one user name, are not allowed. Disconnect all previous connections to the server or shared resource and try again

Code: 1220
Description: