Turns out Windows errors can speak English. Who knew?

Those weird codes actually makes sense, just not to you.

ERROR_READ_FAULT – 30 (0x1E) – The system cannot read from the specified device. ERROR_GEN_FAILURE – 31 (0x1F) – A device attached to the system is not functioning.

In this article, we provide the list of the most common Windows system error codes, a quick and easy explanation of each one, and possible solutions to fix them.

This post features solutions to fix Code 42, Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware because there is a duplicate device already running in the system ...

System error codes are the error numbers displayed by a Windows operating system when a problem occurs on a user’s system. Most of the error codes are followed by ...