Find out what windows error codes means

I’m sure you’ve all experienced it at some stage or another. You’re just
quietly working away on your PC and all is well, suddenly you get the
cringing error sound and then a window pops up with a great big red X.
In the window is a whole bunch of numbers and letters, an error code.
Generally the only way to figure out what these mean is to head on over to
Google and do a search for them, but there’s an easier way. The Windows
Error Code Lookup Tool (also known as ErrMsg) is a handy little program
developed just to help you with that problem.
After download, you just have to run it and you will be able to enter your
error code. It should then translate all those 0×80070570 into English for you
and let you know what it actually means to human beings.
It works on both 32bit and 64 bot versions of Windows 7 as well as previous
versions of Windows.
That’s one option, but there’s another little program as well, a bit more
advanced but does pretty much the same job. WELT (Windows Error Lookup
Tool) will also allow you to lookup those error codes, but it also allows you
to add notes so next time you get that error code you can keep track of
what applications are causing it.
It offers 3 categories of error codes which are Win32/HRESULTS, NTSTATUS
and STOP Errors. You have to enter the error code and then select the
category and hit enter. This option is probably more for advanced users as
most users wont know what the different categories are.