Windows Error Lookup Tool

[wila]

Hi,

Do you know those windows errors 0x80070005 etc.. ?

This is a story about a tool that I am using all the time and have done so for years..

Over the past few weeks a couple of my customers came to me with questions about some windows runtime errors.
Some I could quickly diagnose by telling them what the errors stand for.
So it seems that not everyone knows about it.

By using the Microsoft Error Lookup Tool, which is just a small binary, you don't need to go google it (which is a drama as these error codes all have seriously been abused by both malware artists and Search Engine Optimisation bozo's)

There's nothing to install.. just a single exe.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/down...aspx?id=100432

You use it like so:

C:\Tools>Err_6.4.5.exe 0x80070005
# for hex 0x80070005 / decimal -2147024891
  COR_E_UNAUTHORIZEDACCESS                                       corerror.h
# Access is denied.
  DIERR_OTHERAPPHASPRIO                                          dinput.h
  DIERR_READONLY                                                 dinput.h
  DIERR_HANDLEEXISTS                                             dinput.h
  DSERR_ACCESSDENIED                                             dsound.h
  STIERR_READONLY                                                stierr.h
  STIERR_NOTINITIALIZED                                          stierr.h
  E_ACCESSDENIED                                                 winerror.h
# General access denied error
# as an HRESULT: Severity: FAILURE (1), FACILITY_WIN32 (0x7), Code 0x5
# for hex 0x5 / decimal 5
  ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED                                            winerror.h
# Access is denied.
# 9 matches found for "0x80070005"

More info:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/wi...de-lookup-tool

Easy peasy and it helps a lot!

--
Wil

[Garret Mott]

You don't have 'em all memorized Wil?

Thanks!

[Bob Worsley]

+1!

[Samuel Pizarro]

Nice

thanks for sharing it Wil

[Mike Peat]

+1

[Mike Cooper]

+1 Cool!

[Hans van de Laar]

Thanks Wil