Error Message Lookup

Friday, March 28th, 2008
by Matt Hartley

Ever come across a Windows error/or/Blue Screen with some cryptic error code that left you scratching your head? Chances are you have and more than likely, ended up coming to this site to determine what the code itself actually means.

The Microsoft provided website is thorough enough and has pretty much any info you might need to determine what the cause of the error might be. It is both Vista and XP compatible, so that is a bonus as well. But if it was me, I think I might be included to want something a bit easier to navigate and perhaps even locally installed onto my hard drive to make these queries a bit easier. That brings me to Error Messages for Windows. No, not more errors. Rather, the name of the application itself.

It is a slick little app that makes tracking down problematic errors on Windows a snap, definitely worth looking into. Is it better than going to the website itself? Can’t speak to that myself, but it if was me, I think I would rather have access to it on my error codes locally.

2 Comments

Louie

March 29th, 2008
at 12:02am

Theres a utility called BugToaster for system crash information. I haven’t tried it yet but it sound very intresting and if the desc. is close to reality maybe worth a look. Here is the desc. from PCWorld:

License Type: Free
Price: Free
Date Added: Jun 2002
Operating Systems: Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows 9.x, Windows Me, Windows XP
File Size: 2099KB
Downloads Count: 15449
Author: BugToaster
Send information on system crashes to a central database, where you can find solutions to them.

More frustrating than a system crash is the fact that we rarely get any information on why it happened so we can learn to prevent crashes in the future. BugToaster collects information on system crashes, and sends it to a central database via Internet. You can then go to the MyBugToaster section of the vendor’s Web site, and find more information on that and other crashes, and find out if there are fixes for your particular problem(s).
This version is free, and you can install in on up to three computers. There are options that cost, supplying additional services such as e-mail notification of fixes and priority crash analysis.

DaveN

March 29th, 2008
at 10:08am

Another great resource for this is http://eventid.net/

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