I've finally got around to organising my "c:\Images\Windows Errors" directory.  So here we go.

DUDs are the next Big Thing in Digital Media.

Quick!  Does the T or the R come first when spelling "CONTROL"?

Somewhat peculiar Start Menu icons.  The EXE icon superimposed on a larger 'Program Group' icon isn't even in any default icon file, though it looks like it was designed.

WinAmp 2.9x is well coded application but it must have a brittle code-base, as the end broke right off in my mouse.

Windows seems to have misplaced my task bar.

A pair of washed-out ghosts of the MSN tray icon have materialised.

More MSN tray icon foolery, featuring Yahoo! Noir.

But sometimes Windows rearranges larger portions of your beak - sorry, I mean 'screen'.

This session rapidly became one of those days when you suspect forces beyond your understanding are at work.

In what became a recurring theme of whimsical icon substitution, Windows decided my programming editor was better off represented as a small hammer.

Pressing F1 had no immediate effect so I kind of held it down for a while, something I regretted later...

It looks like Microsoft Word, but it's shaped like a Dial-Up Networking phone.

My MSN friends: eight people and a copper bollard.

Cut and paste programming should not be mixed with instant messenging.

The uninformative program-crash window finds a way to be even less useful.

In which CompuServe does not engage in the appropriate use of quotation marks.

I dunno, maybe I just live a long way from Java.

In case you ever wondered who that guy who looks like a Star Trek badge with arms and a nose is, here are some explanations from 1999 and 2001.  You really couldn't make this stuff up.

Obviously not.

My PC has given a file called "Stephen" an icon of a computer with a red "No Entry" sign in front of it.  Does it just not like me or something?

Windows puts my taskbar in a stupid place AGAIN.

This screenshot featuring faceless icons as holes in the application is full of dark symbolism.

F11 takes a screenshot, which then gets displayed scaled down in Paint Shop Pro, so if you hold it down by accident, oddness ensues.

OK, now that's stupid.

What is it with CompuServe and the missing quotes hilarity?

Ever had a dream about all your toolbar icons suddenly shrinking to one pixel square and having to drag these weeny bars around the screen?  Thought not.

The wonders of André LaMothe's DirectX demos.

Still awaiting a patch for Windows XP Tardis Edition.

Redundancy, redundancy.

Select your file extension from the dropdown random load of crap menu.

This is the only screenshot here that is faked, can you see why?

Why have one set of window buttons when you could have two?

I'm guessing someone commented out the "Render Skin" command.  Blankness ensues.

Windows Media Player 6 isn't immune either.  The more obscure thing wrong with this image is that "Lowride" is actually only 7 minutes 15 seconds long.

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