Guidelines For Understanding And Dealing With PC Error Codes
Computer error messages have an uncanny ability to annoy you and make you feel helpless at the same time.
The reason they are so annoying is that they may pop up when you are doing an important task.
They make you feel helpless because they use confusing error codes which they expect you to remember or decipher and are not helpful in communicating what has gone wrong.
The coders who devise these carelessly written error messages forget that ideally an error message must meet 3 important criteria:
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A message should explain clearly “what the problem is”.
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It should identify potential causes of the problem.
- It should suggest possible solutions to the problem.
In order to deal with the computer errors on your own, you need to spend some time to understand a few common causes of error messages and how you can deal with them. Read the rest of this entry →
