System error codes will appear in software programs and in various areas within the Windows operating system after certain errors occur. Unfortunately, sometimes you'll only be shown the error code number but nothing about what the error code means! Knowing what a system error code means is necessary to troubleshoot the error.
The System Error Codes are very broad. Each one can occur in one of many hundreds of locations in the system. Consequently the descriptions of these codes cannot be very specific. Use of these codes requires some amount of investigation and analysis. You need to note both the programmatic and the run-time context in which these errors occur.
In computer programming, error codes are enumerated messages that correspond to faults in a specific software application. They are typically used to identify faulty hardware, software, or incorrect user input in programming languages that lack exception handling, although they are sometimes also used in conjunction with exception handling.
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