Welcome to the Hall of Computer Errors!
Have you ever had one of those days where you were working on some project in Microsoft Office, only to have a Blue Screen appear and have your save data corrupted? We've all been there. Here I will showcase some funny errors I've seen. Please note that most of these screenshots I took in 2000 - now. Some are very old, while others are new. Enjoy them!
NOTICE!! This page isnt a help page. All the errors are real, but this is meant to be a sarcastic page. I can't help you with computer problems.
Page last updated: July 10th, 2021
American Online 6 (2000) - "Sorry, we are unable to list mail." - For whatever reason, I couldn't send, receive, sort, or read any of my Emails. I couldn't get in my inbox until the next day.
Windows 95 (May 2001) - "A new MS-DOS resident program named 'WIN' may decrease your system's performance." - Windows itself causes a decrease to your system's performance. Sounds about right.
Outlook Express 6 (May 6, 2002) - "The connection to the server has failed." - Despite working perfectly fine moments prior, I had to restart my computer, and Outlook couldn't connect to my Yahoo Verizon account.
Internet Explorer 5 (April 5, 2003) - "Microsoft Internet Explorer has encountered a problem and needs to close." - I was in the middle of updating my old GeoCities page when this error randomly popped up.
"Windows Installer" (July 17, 2003) - "The system cannot read from the specified device" - Windows couldn't find the DVD drive, somehow.
"Windows" (January 8, 2004) - "A duplicate name exists on the" - A duplicate name exists on the ... what?
Visual Basic 6.0 (June 11, 2004) - "400" - Visual Basic version 6 sometimes crashes with this extremely vague error code, "400". Clicking "Help" does nothing, either.
Holiday Lights v2.0 (December 8, 2005) - "The application requires Windows 95" - Why does this require 95? It's Windows XP. Running it in "Compatibility Mode" makes it work fine though.
Windows 95 (January 29, 2006, taken in a virtual machine) - "Windows encountered an error accessing the system registry." - Don't try to forcefully shut down Windows 95 willy nilly, or else the registry will corrupt itself. Oh, and clicking "Restore From Backup" made it freeze.
Microsoft Backup (May 6, 2007) - "Catastrophic failure" - This is an interesting error in Windows that I've never quite been able to figure out. I'd love to know what the so-called "catastrophic failure" was.
Windows Explorer (September 8, 2007) - "You cannot drop an item onto a button on the taskbar" - Ever try to drag an executable file to the task bar? Not the quick launch bar... the task bar itself.
Windows Vista (January 1, 2008) - "You don't currently have permission to access this folder" - Why do I have to do this?
Frets on Fire (June 12, 2008) - "FretsOnFire.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. " - Frets on Fire is a Guitar Hero clone for the PC. Only problem - the program was rightfully notorious for immediately crashing on the start screen on most computers. The same problem also occurs on Windows Vista.
Warcraft 3 World Editor (July 4, 2009) - "The exception unknown software exception" - I'm not actually sure what went wrong here.
Windows 98 (October 11, 2009) - "The folder 'Recycled' is a systemfolder" - It's possible to delete the Recycle Bin after all! In Windows 98, at least.
Microsoft Works 9 Installer (October 22, 2009) - "Microsoft Works is now installed. To exit, click OK." - Not sure why a simple "installation finished, click finish to end the installation" was so hard, but alright.
Windows Media Player (December 11, 2009) - "Catastrophic failure" - What is up with these "catastrophic failures"?
Microsoft CRM 3.0 Desktop Client for Outlook Setup (November 23, 2010) - "Action Microsoft.Crm.Setup.Client.InstallPstAction failed. WritePrivateProfileSection failed." - "WritePrivateProfileSection" failed, whatever that means. Very helpful errors.
AutoCAD (December 1, 2010) - "FATAL ERROR: Unhandled e0434352h Exception at 75c7d36fh" - I don't even know what went wrong here, to be honest.
Sanny Builder 3 (December 3, 2010) - "Wrong game directory" - Sanny Builder 3 is a tool to disassemble and modify the main.scm of old GTA games. In this case, it kept claiming I had the wrong game directory, though I specifically checked and I had GTA San Andreas installed in that directory.
Internet Explorer 6 (December 4, 2010) - Flash Player wouldn't start in IE. I guess Flash Player didn't like me that day.
Mac System 7 (June 1, 2011, taken in Basilisk) - "unimplemented trap" - I hate these stupid bomb errors that always come up. The ones at my middle school would have these bomb things about every 10 minutes, and each time they happened, it required a manual reset.
Mac OS X (May 7, 2012) - "Because a USB device was drawing too much power from your computer, one or more of your USB devices have been disabled." - I plugged in a few USBs, and I'm given this message.
ERROR: Root device mounted successfully, but /sbin/init does not exist.
Bailing out, you are on your own. Good luck.
Arch Linux Bootup Sequence (November 18, 2012) - "Bailing out, you are on your own. Good luck" - If you mess up and mount the wrong root device, Arch Linux won't be able to find /sbin/init and it'll print out a very promising and hopeful message.
Arch Linux Bootup Sequence (November 18, 2012) - "Bailing out, you are on your own. Good luck" - If you mess up and mount the wrong root device, Arch Linux won't be able to find /sbin/init and it'll print out a very promising and hopeful message.
Windows 8/10 BSOD (June 9, 2013) - "Your PC ran into a problem and needs to restart." - Check out the ridiculous BSOD that occurs in Windows 8/10 now. Instead of useful technical information, we get a frowny face and an apology. They don't even give you hexadecimal values anymore, you have to find these in the Memory Log (and if your computer can't start up, good luck!)
In Windows 10, they even go the extra mile and add QR codes that you can scan. In case you happen to have your phone whipped out and can manage to scan it before it restarts.
ftp> open 127.0.0.1
Connected to 127.0.0.1.
500 OOPS: child died
UNIX FTP (July 13, 2013) - "OOPS: child died." This happened on a CentOS 5 server which didn't have a GUI, so unfortunately I couldn't get a screenshot, but if you configure something wrong in vsftpd, you get this message that would sound rather bad out of context.
Syncplify.me Notepad! 1.0 (January 5, 2014) - "There is no default printer currently selected." - Even though there was a default printer. Restarting the computer made it work.
Windows 7 Explorer (June 6, 2014) - "Windows Explorer has stopped working." - I was writing a document in Word, when this just literally comes out of nowhere.
Printer Properties (July 22, 2014) - "Printer settings could not be saved." - Changing printer settings is apparently not supported on Windows 8.1.
Windows 10 Upgrader (August 1, 2015) - "Something Happened" - Something happened! But what happened *exactly*? Microsoft won't tell you.
Ubuntu 12.04 (November 7, 2015) - "Sorry, Ubuntu 12.04 has experienced an internal error" - Every time I start up Ubuntu, it always comes up with this "internal error" dialogue. I don't get why its crashing, but oh man, it sure likes to tell you!
Ubuntu 16.04 (October 8, 2016) - "Sorry, Ubuntu 16.04 has experienced an internal error" - Hey, look! It also happens on Ubuntu 16.04! Whew. (I didn't take a screenshot of it, since I'm pretty much used to it, but this same exact error also kept popping up on Ubuntu 14.04.)
Windows Live Photo Gallery (November 5, 2016) - "An error is preventing Photo Gallery from saving this photo." - Live Photo Gallery doesn't like making copies of PNG files.
Windows 10 (January 5, 2017) - "Chrome is draining your battery faster" - If you're on a laptop (or on a UPS, as I was) and you use Google Chrome, Windows 10 will perpetually remind you that "Chrome is draining your battery faster" and to use their god awful browser "Microsoft Edge" repeatedly through little notifications until you turn it off (well, at least until it magically re-enables itself again).
Microsoft Office 2016 (August 28, 2017) - "Something went wrong" - Very descriptive error. Something always seems to go wrong with Microsoft products now, but it never actually tells you.
Windows XP (December 15, 2017) - "Windows is currently working with a file." - Whoa, retro! Yeah, still using good ol' XP in 2017, since some of the computers at my current workplace still use it. Anyway this error occurred while trying to shut the system down, it would not shut down no matter what - there was no indication of what "file" Windows was working on, but eventually it let me shut it off.
Windows 7 (January 9, 2018) - "Hardware Malfunction" - !!! This is of course not an original screenshot, but rather an MS Paint mockup of an actual BSOD I received while trying to shut a computer running Windows 7 down. No idea what happened, but I guess the system somehow malfunctioned in some way.
Ubuntu MATE 18.04 (May 10, 2018) - "Sorry, Ubuntu 18.04 has experienced an internal error" - It happened again! On a different flavor of Ubuntu that I was trying out (MATE). It really just wouldn't be Ubuntu without this stupid error, would it?
Xubuntu 20.04 (June 13, 2020) -
"Sorry, Ubuntu 20.04 has experienced an internal error" - As per usual, Ubuntu encounters an "internal error".
Discord (July 1, 2021) - "You didn't enter the server name correctly" - Discord doesn't like slashes in server names. Clicking it again made it successfully delete.
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