Interesting Errors, Bugs, and Messages

On June 23, 2011

Have you run into some interesting errors or humorous Knowledge Base Articles lately? Well, I run into them once in a while. By the way, none of these are Photoshopped. There are all actual screenshots of Windows computers. Sometimes in the middle of an intense troubleshooting session you deserve a little relief. Check em’ out.

The reason for this error was that the operation completed successfully

This error was on my SharePoint server.

The Windows SharePoint Services Timer service depends on the Netlogon service which failed to start because of the following error:
The operation completed successfully.

The last time I used this program was 61 years from now

According to this screenshot from May 25, 2011 I used Adobe Acrobat Professional last time on April 23, 2072. That’s 61 years from now.

Last Used On 4/23/2072

Please stop disrupting our Web servers

Sometimes you need to slow down while surfing the Internet.

You’re disruptively hitting our Dell Factory Outlet web servers too fast, please slow down your incoming HTTP requests to our web servers. Thank you for your cooperation.

Upgrading to Windows XP may cause you to lose your cookies

Microsoft KB article 282850: Cookies Lost After Upgrading to Windows XP

More than 500 users in a group can cause gray hair

Microsoft KB article 281923: Hair color of the “person” icon for a user group becomes gray if the group contains more than 500 users

Network adapter doesn’t work if the cable is not connected

Microsoft KB article 228001: Network Adapter Does Not Work if Unplugged

Insert a blank, formatted disk into drive C

Microsoft KB article 830680: Forgotten Password Wizard Prompts You to Insert a Disk into Drive C

Microsoft Excel 2003 is part of the 2007 Microsoft Office system

Template download problem: “Microsoft Excel 2003 is part of the 2007 Microsoft Office system and can be obtained as follows:”

This is odd, and it also means no user configuration can be found.

This was a Windows Vista Event Viewer error. I guess, sometimes the software developers show a sense of humor, or perhaps they are surprised at the error message generated by their own code.