Weird Windows Pics returns

[JR Ewing]

You all probably remember that thread called Weird Windows Pics that was started about 3 years ago and ended in June 2002. I visited that thread today and noticed that about 98% of the images have been deleted from the posters servers, obviously because they didn't want to leave it on there anymore. So I wanted to start this kind of thread again except I also want to put these pics up on a section in my website, that way we won't lose the stuff because I thought that thread was really cool.

So I guess I'll make my first contribution. Open/Download the attachment, its the pic.

Now in the picture I've posted there is a D drive, yet I only have one hard drive in the computer. After rebooting it disappeared.

[Mountain Man]

Taking screenshots of buggy Windows behavior is like shooting fish in a barrel.

[JR Ewing]

Maybe...maybe not. But with alot of poeple using XP now, there may not be anything to take screenshots of.... http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

[Kevin Wolff]

I have a weird Windows pic!!

This is from my dad's computer. The reason is obvious (lack of CPU power), but I think it looks weirder than usual this time.

Sorry it's so compressed - he doesn't have cropping tools. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif

[Yatta]

With Windows XP, I have been unable to find anything. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif The only problems with XP you're going to see are computer processing-related issues where the windows mix together like in Kevin's image.

[Kevin Wolff]

With Windows XP, I have been unable to find anything. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif The only problems with XP you're going to see are computer processing-related issues where the windows mix together like in Kevin's image.



Haven't found anything? XP can't be that good. Granted it's a bit more stable but this thing's gotta be full of undiscovered bugs!

/goes out looking

[Crispy Critters]

As much as I hate to say it (I hate to say it because now I can't make fun of Windows), XP doesn't have bugs like one would expect. Any problems that I've been having have been due to bugs in the program that I'm using. Maybe somebody should make a thread titled "Weird Program Pics" instead.

[Nessus]

One thing that drives me nuts is that when you use thumbnail view all the folders change the pic at random. You also get folders you never assigned a pic just picking some weird pic at random.

[Kevin Wolff]

^ Well then, take a pic! http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[tony]

Personally, Id place the blame on my failing computer hardware as strage crap has been happening. Its not just with windows too. This poped up, and It wont go away, I can even move the taskbar around and windows over it. Its just sitting there, mocking me.

[Mayur]

You have GOT to see this -

Out of memory error when I alt+tabbed jazz jackrabbit 2, amnesia error......geez!

[JR Ewing]

Thanks for all those who have contributed so far. Just to inform you I am saving all the images posted so far. Eventually once I get enough I'll get a section on my site set up and post these images.

Since that one time on my old computer I haven't gotten any other weird Windows stuff happen. But if I do I won't hesitate to capture it.

[Crispy Critters]

It's way too bad my school updated the remander of the old computers to Windows 2000. If they didn't, I would be having a field day in this thread.

Using AutoCAD was always fun;

You may not save this drawing, a command is still open.
/me presses escape once to close command.

Windows does not have sufficiant memory to run the program you have specified. Pleace close one or more programs.
/me takes a look at taskbar and notices only AutoCAD is running, and only one drawing is open. me throws keyboard at monitor.

[Kevin Wolff]

It's way too bad my school updated the remander of the old computers to Windows 2000. If they didn't, I would be having a field day in this thread.



Yeah so would I http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif Even the Win2k machines at my school don't run very well. At least it keeps IT busy. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif


Windows does not have sufficiant memory to run the program you have specified. Pleace close one or more programs.
/me takes a look at taskbar and notices only AutoCAD is running, and only one drawing is open. me throws keyboard at monitor.



LOL! http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
I've had something like that happen before. Nothing open...not enough memory. /starts up the task manager "procesess" section

[Kevin Wolff]

\o/

I have discovered a bug. XP screwed up! Finally! http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

See attachment.

[Wamplet]

Male_basic_base? http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/redface.gif

It looks like it was afraid to associate that given your age. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[Kevin Wolff]

that is my stoopid brother's thing. it is a base for making skins for computer games http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

[Wamplet]

Well, regardless if it was a web page or modelling program, I'm still worried. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/redface.gif

[Hudson]

\o/

I have discovered a bug. XP screwed up! Finally! http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

See attachment.



Dude.. what the fxck were you looking at?? http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif

[Superczar]

\o/

I have discovered a bug. XP screwed up! Finally! http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

See attachment.



Kevin, is your closet door opening? http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

[Kevin Wolff]

Dammit you guys!! http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tinyted.gif I still have that folder open. Attached is the window. Did you all really think that it was.....

It's a Freedom Force mesh.

[Wamplet]

Dammit you guys!! http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tinyted.gif I still have that folder open. Attached is the window. Did you all really think that it was.....



The Hell you say! http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif


See attachment!

[Kevin Wolff]

^ Well that was obvious, wasn't it? http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[Superczar]

ROOFLES!

[Kevin Wolff]

So JR - how many pics do you have total now? And don't bother with Wamp's picture, that's for "Weird Perversion Pics." http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

I wonder if we'll find enough stuff for a webpage. I haven't found anything else here yet. Though at school, something weird happened to Win2k, it was kinda like a BSOD, but no shot was takeable, it was a boot error. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif Did you save what few pics remain in the old thread?

[Kevin Wolff]

In my refusal to let this thread fall off, I've got another pic:

http://www.scorpioncity.com/images/crash/m/blankbutton.png

This isn't mine, but my Win95 machine used to get tons of these.
(Courtesy of ScorpianCity.com)

[JR Ewing]

Oh yeah, thats a classic right there http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif I used to get like 3 or 4 of those at a time.

As for any other pics. I'm sorry to say nothing has come up. I do have a few pics from the old thread that I saved (what was left when I skimmed it recently) I will post some of those here in the next couple of days. Right now I'm in the process of revamping my website for the third time so I will be starting a section on my website for this stuff. I hope to get everything completed by Tuesday, which will be the 1 year anniversary of my website opening.

[Crispy Critters]

Hey, I remember those. I haven't seen them since Windows ME.

[Yatta]

In my refusal to let this thread fall off, I've got another pic:

http://www.scorpioncity.com/images/crash/m/blankbutton.png

This isn't mine, but my Win95 machine used to get tons of these.
(Courtesy of ScorpianCity.com)


I'd get that in Win98 after exiting screensaver mode. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/love.gif

[Kevin Wolff]

Yeah I think the NT kernel must've had something to do with that. Unless NT4 had them...which I doubt. I love them anyway. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[JR Ewing]

This happened while uninstalling something (I believe it was CorelDraw) Apparentally it was asking if I wanted to reboot because when I clicked Yes it shut Windows down and rebooted the computer.

[Kevin Wolff]

ALL HAIL TEH BLANK DIALOG BOXES!!! http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/woot.gif http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/woot.gif http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Sorry, I haven't any new ones. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif

[Geir]

http://www.macromedia.com/support/dreamweaver/ts/documents/control_shockwave_error/error.gif

hears one I wiped up in a flash...

[Mr_Diffrence]

Old WinMe error

[Dukefan]

Not very helpful, is it? (Attachment)

[Crosma]

http://www.macromedia.com/support/dreamweaver/ts/documents/control_shockwave_error/error.gif

hears one I wiped up in a flash...

It should be noted that the "Shockwave OBJECT tag" widely used on the Internet is not a correct usage of the HTML tag, just the only method IE supports. Netscape has supported the correct usage of the tag since Netscape6. So there.

[Supafly]

Not very helpful, is it? (Attachment)


uhhhh nice
do u really think that there are so many stupid ppl who would believe it? i can tell that it's fake by the alignment
-_-'
man if u already wanna fake something, lemme know, i know how to do it...cuz faking in paint is...u can choose from these options:

- stupid
- lame
- kewl

one hint: it's not the third http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

hah

[Dukefan]

I'm sorry? No, I promise you that I really got that error message a few days ago. I can show you the fullscreen capture, if that will convince you. I most assuredly did not fake it. Even if I knew how (which I don't, I have zero image editing skills), I wouldn't.

[Kevin Wolff]

Old WinMe error



"Unknown" caused an error... wasn't that enlightening? http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif


Not very helpful, is it? (Attachment)



It does look a bit real, but it'd be easier to tell if you were using the default XP Theme or Windows Classic.

[Geir]

http://members.aol.com/misinfo/error.gif

[Crispy Critters]

Finally, I have something weird to post. For whatever reason when ever I rename a large file, and I forget to put the extention back in, the system will hang, and I would have to restart explorer. But this time everything got bent out of shape. I was uninstalling a program, and while it was uninstalling, I also renaimed the Unreal 2k demo and forgot to include the extention. After I hit enter, the folder it was in hung. I decided to give it a minute to see if it would do anything, so I browsed the forums for a while. Then I tried just closing the window and nothing happend. I minimized Firebird, and what I was looking at covered the window that the Unreal demo was in.

Click on the attachment for a bigger view.

[Geir]

^is that XP?

[Crispy Critters]

Yes.

[Yatta]

Hehe, I finally witnessed the birth of a bug on my XP. Shortly after installing Catalyst 3.10 (which I'm sure has nothing to do with this error), my Quick Launch icons were switched with irrelvant images. As you can see, my AOL Instant Messenger now sports a fancy MSN icon while my Show Desktop button has been changed to an outlook envelope. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif

Click attachment link to enlarge...

[Crispy Critters]

That's not good, dude. I think Microsoft is attempting to take over every program on your computer. You let Windows start calling the shots at this stage then you're screwd. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

You also may want to get rid of a few icons on your desktop and retake the image too, if you know what I mean...

[Kevin Wolff]

Hehe, I finally witnessed the birth of a bug on my XP.



Told ya so. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

Anyways, I can now say I've gotten one of these popup boxes! (from my dad's computer)
http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/woot.gif

[Geir]

Hehe, I finally witnessed the birth of a bug on my XP. Shortly after installing Catalyst 3.10 (which I'm sure has nothing to do with this error), my Quick Launch icons were switched with irrelvant images. As you can see, my AOL Instant Messenger now sports a fancy MSN icon while my Show Desktop button has been changed to an outlook envelope. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif

Click attachment link to enlarge...



how do you get HL2 before it's even out?

...or is it out?

[Yatta]

how do you get HL2 before it's even out?

...or is it out?


I fancy the icon. In reality it's a folder full of screenshots of HL2! http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/nelson.gif

Prove it's not! See? You can't! http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/nelson.gif

[Crispy Critters]

Oh, OK. I apologize for being a dick. I'm just curious, where did you get the icon from?

[Geir]

funny windows errors:

DOS Error #01: Windows loading, come back tomorrow
DOS Error #02: Windows loaded. System in danger.
DOS Error #03: Windows not found: (C)heer (P)arty (D)ance
DOS Error #04: Out of disk space. Delete Windows? (Y)es (H)ell yes!
Windows Error #01: No error... ...yet.
Windows Error #02: Multitasking attempted. System confused.
Windows Error #03: Unexplained error.
Windows Error #04: Reserved for future mistakes
Windows Error #05: Nonexistent error. This cannot really be happening.
Windows Error #06: Unable to exit windows. Try the door.
Windows Error #07: Door locked. Try control-alt-delete
Windows Error #08: Keyboard locked. Try anything you can think of.
Windows Error #09: Mouse not found. Press mouse button to continue.
Windows Error #09: Game Over. Exiting Windows.
Win95 Error #01: Insufficient money spent in hardware.
To be continued...

and the peoples remarks... this is a long one...


In a world without walls and fences - who needs windows and gates?!
Computers are like air conditioners, they stop working properly if you open Windows.
My SPARCstation has air condition. No need to open windows.
Windows 95 Source Code
Windows means "Work is never done on Windows systems"
Customer: I'm running Windows 95...
Helpdesk: Yes...
Customer: ...and now my computer stopped working!
Helpdesk: Yes, you already said that.
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for.
"Windows for dummies", another term of "this sentence no verb"
Microsoft broke Volkswagen's world record: Volkswagen only made 22 million bugs!
IBM creates Operating Systems - MS-DOSn't
Have you reinstalled your Windows today?
How do you fix all Windows bugs at once?
mke2fs /dev/sda1
deltree /y \
Windows 95 the most popular virus on the market today.
Windows95 - Plug and pray...
(Bastian Kleineidam aka Calvin)
Windows - The colorful clown suit for DOS
Windows - a solitaire game that requires 16 MB and HD
Windows - The best $89 solitaire game you can buy
BTW: Like Unix freaks like the logout in the .login file, Windows users like the SHELL=C:\WINDOWS\SOL.EXE line in their SYSTEM.INI file. %-))
Windows - so intuitive you only need a meg of help files!
If Windows is user-friendly, why do you need a 678-page manual?
"Fer sail cheep, Windows spel chekcer, wurks grate"
The word "Windows" is a word out of an old dialect of the Apaches. It means: "White man staring through glass-screen onto an hourglass..."
Windows =Waste in DOS WorkSpace
Bang on the LEFT side of your computer to restart Windows
Alt-F4. Just do it.
C:\ONGRTLNS.W95
Double your drive space: Delete Windows!
Microsoft is to Software as McDonalds is to Cuisine
Does someone know the cheats for Windows95?
This is an airconditioned room - Do not open Windows!
This virus requires Microsoft Windows 3.x
OS/2 VirusScan -- "Windows found: Remove it? [Y,Y]"
Favorite Windoze game: "Guess what this icon does?"
Windows95 - crash compatible on Windows 3.x
Windows NT - Nice Try
Windows - a virus with mouse support
Windows is for fun, OS/2 is for getting things done
Windows vs OS/2 = Michael Jackson vs Mike Tyson
The nice thing about Windows is - It does not just crash, it displays a dialog box and lets you press 'OK' first.
Microsoft is not the answer.
Microsoft is the question.
"No" is the answer!
McAfee-Question: Is Windows a virus?
No, Windows is not a virus. Here's what viruses do:

They replicate quickly - okay, Windows does that.
Viruses use up valuable system resources, slowing down the system as they do so - okay, Windows does that.
Viruses will, from time to time, trash your hard disk - okay, Windows does that too.
Viruses are usually carried, unknown to the user, along with valuable programs and systems. Sigh... Windows does that, too.
Viruses will occasionally make the user suspect their system is too slow (see 2.) and the user will buy new hardware. Yup, that's with Windows, too.
Until now it seems Windows is a virus but there are fundamental differences:
Viruses are well supported by their authors, are running on most systems, their program code is fast, compact and efficient and they tend to become more sophisticated as they mature.
So Windows is not a virus. It's a bug.
Last words of a Windows user:
Why does that work now?
Where do I have to click now? - There?
Guess what this icon does...
Message box: "Data not completely delete? Yes - No" --- User: "No - ey - Yes"


Microsoft gives you Windows... OS/2 gives you the whole house
Some windows were made to be broken
Turn your 486 into a Gameboy: Type WIN at C:\>
Data to Picard: "No, Captain, I do NOT run WINDOWS!"
Bugs come in through open Windows
Windows '97 will also have artificial intelligence, e.g.:
Unable to FORMAT A: Having a go at C:
Can't Compress Hard Drive but don't worry I'll delete all files over size 50,000 that'll give you some space.
How do you make Windows faster? --- Throw it harder!
Windows95 is out! (PC Magazine, April 2013)
Windows95: New look, same multicrashing
Windows95 will be released as soon as Windows 3.1 finishes loading
Windows95 - Every function is a restart function...
Windows95 does really have preemptive Multitasking: It can boot and crash at the same time.
Windows NT - Insert wallet into Drive A: and press any key to empty
Windows NT? New Technology? I don't think so...
Windows - Just another pain in the glass
Windows - Turn your Pentium into an XT...
Windows - The Gates of hell
Windows - From the people who brought you EDLIN!
Windows - a XT emulator for an AT
If Windows sucked it would be good for something
DOS is just an operating system that runs Windows 3.1
DOS 6.0 and Windows 3.1 - A turtle and its shell
Windows Multitasking - screwing up several things at once
Windows found - remove? (Y)es (S)ure (F)ine (O)K
Windows has the ability to screw up 2 things at the same time!
If I wanted Windows, I'd live in a greenhouse!
Microsoft's marketing: "Windows is SEMI-shareware"
Are you using Windows or is that just an XT?
Have you crashed your Windows today?
Relax... you are entering a windows free zone
OS/2... Opens up Windows, shuts up Gates
New from McAfee: WinScan - Removes all Windows programs
New Windows 4.0: programmed in Turbo Logo++
My latest screen saver: Curtains for Windows
If Windows 95 doesn't start shipping soon, it might be Curtains 95.
Masochist: Windows programmer with a smile!
I'll never forget the 1st time I ran Windows, but I'm trying...
I still miss Windows, but my aim is getting better
I can't wait for EDLIN to be ported for Windows
Father, forgive me, I've been caught using Windows...
Exhibitionists love Windows
Despite my car having windows, it still isn't mouse driven!
Breaking Windows isn't just for kids anymore...
Beat me, whip me, make me use Windows!
A computer without Windows is like a fish without a bicycle
Difference between a virus and windows? Viruses rarely fail.
Newsflash: Microsoft announces Visual Edlin for Windows
Time on your hands? Get Windows!
Hiroshima '45 - Tschernobyl '86 - Windows '95
What's the best of Windows95? The deinstaller!
Why is the Pentium 166 so fast? - It's for booting faster, if Windows crashed again.
What is the difference between Jurassic Park and Microsoft? - One is an over-rated high tech theme park based on prehistoric information and populated mostly by dinosaurs, the other is a Steven Spielberg movie.
How many Windows PC owners does it take to change a lightbulb? Just one, as long as you explain it's Plug'n'Play... they get confused if it doesn't come with a driver disk...
How do Microsoft employees exchange a bulb? Not at all... Bill Gates declares darkness as a standard.
Help! There are Windows everywhere! In my car, my house
Ever noticed how fast Windows runs? Neither did I!
Mouse not present - click twice to continue...
Who the ****** is General Failure? And why is he reading my harddisk?
What's the difference between windows '95 and highly destructive unstoppable virus? About 90 Megs of hard disk space.
Coming soon: EDLIN for Windows
I've got two Windows hardware emulators! Really! They works much more reliable than the original: one for Windows 3.11, one for Windows95.
Unfortunately they have superscriped the emulator keys wrongly, so that on the Windows 3.11 emulator key "TURBO" and on the Windows 95 emulator is written "RESET"... But doesn't matter, works great.
Windows, it's not pretty, it's not ugly, but it's pretty ugly.
To be continued...

[Geir]

another win joke:

http://www.poddys.com/jokes/Cartoons/windows98.jpg

http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/nelson.gif (http://www.thehumorarchives.com/humor/0000562.html)

[Yatta]

Oh, OK. I apologize for being a dick. I'm just curious, where did you get the icon from?


The internet--KazAa I think.

[Yatta]

This actually happened 1 minute ago. It's about the third time it's happening over the past few month; and no--I didn't drag my WINDOWS folder into the Recycle Bin. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/brickwall.gif

[Crispy Critters]

You know, I actually had that same problem happen to me a week ago. I just thought it was a joke proggie and clicked 'Yes.' My computer just froze and I had to do a hard restart. Everything seems to be OK after this happend.

[Kevin Wolff]

lol Yatta! http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif That reminds me of this pic:

http://www.scorpioncity.com/images/crash/a/empty_or_not.png

[JR Ewing]

Okay, we now have 18 pics. That's excluding a few pics that were posted that were not relevent to the topic, and including the ones that I recovered from the old thread. So I think I've got enough to start a section on my webpage now. But don't stop posting images, we need to try and keep this thread alive.

I have had a weird thing happen several times to my computer in the last few days that I'll post here the next time it happens.

[Yatta]

lol Yatta! http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif That reminds me of this pic:

http://www.scorpioncity.com/images/crash/a/empty_or_not.png


I had to delete over 1000 files once, when I accidentally downloaded a file from KaZaA that contained a sexually active file reproduction system. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif I figured out how to get rid of it though--I simply made a copy of my other computer's explorer.exe and replaced it with the infected one via DOS. Note that the infected explorer.exe was from Win98 while the one I replaced it with came from WinME. Are they brothers? Because my computer started up perfectly after the switch! http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif

[Night Hacker]

With Windows XP, I have been unable to find anything. <img src="http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" /> The only problems with XP you're going to see are computer processing-related issues where the windows mix together like in Kevin's image.



Haven't found anything? XP can't be that good. Granted it's a bit more stable but this thing's gotta be full of undiscovered bugs!

/goes out looking



Oh XP has bugs, the difference is it doesn't have alot of the smaller, more noticable bugs like in older versions... no, XP bugs, when they hit, you will know it, they tend to be major. I, and several friends have been forced to re-install windows due to some of these bugs that, when they hit, prevented us from accessing windows again. In one case I couldn't boot windows in safe mode either and had no choice but to re-install.

Then there are all the less noticable bugs, like the tons of security holes XP has had. There have been a LOT of patches and updates for XP... you don't patch something that works fine. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

[Geir]

This happened while uninstalling something (I believe it was CorelDraw) Apparentally it was asking if I wanted to reboot because when I clicked Yes it shut Windows down and rebooted the computer.



I got the same thing when unistalling the codex of drivrx

EDIT: noticed that I unistalled "DivX pro Codex Adware"? http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif

[Crispy Critters]

Oh XP has bugs, the difference is it doesn't have alot of the smaller, more noticable bugs like in older versions... no, XP bugs, when they hit, you will know it, they tend to be major.



Yeah, I have noticed this. When XP goes down, IT GOES DOWN. Fortunetly, it doesn't do this often.

[Kevin Wolff]

Note that the infected explorer.exe was from Win98 while the one I replaced it with came from WinME. Are they brothers? Because my computer started up perfectly after the switch! http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif



WinME is just 98 with the latest MS bundled programs in it. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif Therefore the Explorers should interact fine.

[Crispy Critters]

Windows ME is 98 with new icons and a nice System Restore feature that doesn't work correctly and causes ME to behave badly. Am I right so far?

[Geir]

perfect... http://lancerplanet.com/en/board/html/emoticons/jump.gif

[Kev_Boy]

I didn't know Commandos 3 was even remotely the same genre as Serious Sam... http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

[Crosma]

What software are you guys using to resize those images? Even PSP 3.11 had anti-aliasing for scaling. In fact, I can't think of any decent freeware image editors that don't. You guys using MS Paint or something?

[Simon Charles]

I didn't know Commandos 3 was even remotely the same genre as Serious Sam... http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif




Yeah, I have that one too! In the uninstall menu, all my WinXP files and critical updates packs have the Serious Sam icon. It's not a problem so far.

[Kevin Wolff]

What software are you guys using to resize those images? Even PSP 3.11 had anti-aliasing for scaling. In fact, I can't think of any decent freeware image editors that don't. You guys using MS Paint or something?



Ahem Crosma...the forum is resizing that. If you click the attachment button, it comes up perfectly in full size. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

[Geir]

this is helping me understand pcs...

[yossa]

This is what my task manager looks like for about 6 months now:

[maxpayne.co.uk]

What software are you guys using to resize those images? Even PSP 3.11 had anti-aliasing for scaling. In fact, I can't think of any decent freeware image editors that don't. You guys using MS Paint or something?



Ahem Crosma...the forum is resizing that. If you click the attachment button, it comes up perfectly in full size. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif



You can also resize images using the sketch/skew feature in paint.

[Yatta]

This is what my task manager looks like for about 6 months now:


That's not an error Yossa, just double click on it's side to get it to look normal again. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

[yossa]

Thanks!

Stupid me http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/doh.gif

[Yatta]

Thanks!

Stupid me http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/doh.gif


You're very welcome. It doesn't have to do with your intelligence though, it's Microsoft's problem for never telling us about it. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[Kevin Wolff]

You can also resize images using the sketch/skew feature in paint.



Yes, but that leads to all the crapiness that Crosma described. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

EDIT: Yatta beat me to it...thank you, dialup computer, for taking 8 minutes to load the thread. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/brickwall.gif

I saw this bug yesterday in Windows 95. I've gotten it so many damn times, it's more than worth posting. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[Geir]

you have not installed your pc yet http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

[Kevin Wolff]

Yeah the setup icon. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif Plus it's been many other things too...once it was the Quicktime icon, another time it was the Citrix Program Neighborhood icon... http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/doh.gif it goes on and on.

[NutWrench]

http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

[Drazula]

I didn't know Commandos 3 was even remotely the same genre as Serious Sam... http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif


I have that Serious Sam icon on all of the Window fixes in Add/Remove Programs.

WTF is causing that? A guess would be a messed up icon cache of some kind. Strange thing is, I just formatted my C: drive and reinstalled XP. SS is on my E: drive, and XP doesn't even know about it yet.

[Tom61]

I didn't know Commandos 3 was even remotely the same genre as Serious Sam... http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif


I have that Serious Sam icon on all of the Window fixes in Add/Remove Programs.

WTF is causing that? A guess would be a messed up icon cache of some kind. Strange thing is, I just formatted my C: drive and reinstalled XP. SS is on my E: drive, and XP doesn't even know about it yet.



You can download a Power Toy called 'TweakUI' from the Microsoft site. With it, you can fix most icon troubles by using the 'Rebuild Icons' in it's options.

[Kevin Wolff]

Haha, yeah I have that one...though in 1999 their "world domination" was not yet in place http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[Mountain Man]

"The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day the same day they start making vacuum cleaners."
-Unknown

[Kevin Wolff]

Erm...I would say this thread is more about laughing at the silly bugs then it is to complain about the OS.

[JR Ewing]

^I agree...

[Dukefan]

"The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day the same day they start making vacuum cleaners."
-Unknown


I've heard far more good things than bad things about their Sidewinder gamepads and joysticks.

[Kevin Wolff]

I've heard far more good things than bad things about their Sidewinder gamepads and joysticks.



Yeah I bought one of those a few years back...don't use it now unfortunately, but it's a good piece of hardware.

[Tom61]

I've heard far more good things than bad things about their Sidewinder gamepads and joysticks.



The only thing Microsoft about those is the logo on the outside, they're actually made by another company.

[Dukefan]

Not really a funny thing about Windows, but this probably doesn't deserve its own thread, so I'll put it here.

Since I got my own computer five months ago, my father's computer has been used at home primarily by him, my mother, and my younger brother. My father is the most computer-savvy of the three, and not by much. As such, when I went home last weekend, I heard several complaints that "the Internet" was acting weird, or more specifically IE. Sure enough, it was doing very strange things, like closing the current window when you clicked any link, and showing popups completely randomly. Signs of spyware, I thought. I decided to install and run Ad-Aware, which was a bitch, because I couldn't ever get to the download page without IE doing something screwy. (I finally got it with Mozilla, of which I am the only user in the family.)

The attached picture shows the results screen.

[JR Ewing]

Wow, pretty clean, eh? http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

As for the WWP section on my website. I have begun construction and it should be finished in about a day or two. But please do not hesitate to add on to this thread. The more the marryer. I actually did have a pic from last weekend but it was on my grandparents computer and I forgot to bring it with me. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif

[Geir]

thats more than my total of objects removed!

[Crispy Critters]

That program locked up at 999 when I was running a scan on my English teacher's computer.

[Mountain Man]

Holy crap that's a lot of spyware!

[Kevin Wolff]

Yikes! Even the computers at my school are (at worst) 150 or so items. 605?!? OH NOES!! /o\

[Tom61]

Dukefan, considering how many adware/spyware apps are on there, you should definately do a virus scan with a freshly updated antivirus. Last time I saw a system with that much spyware, it also had several viruses.

[Kevin Wolff]

Ok here we go...similar to one I posted before, but without the potential perverted-ness. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

(PS: I only use IE for ICQ, since in Mozilla it's all goofy.)

[Kevin Wolff]

No responses? http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Anyway, here's another from XP. I've seen this before, but just now took a pic.

[Kevin Wolff]

Triple post...pay attention guys!! http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tinyted.gif http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

Here's a bug I got last night when I opened my webserver directory:

http://www.dognoodle99.cjb.net/images/different-icons.png

[Kevin Wolff]

Nobody appears to be looking... http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/brickwall.gif

Anyways I got two more, just today. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif

My brother noticed this one:
http://www.dognoodle99.cjb.net/images/desktop-wrong-icon.png

I get this one more often than not http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/doh.gif
http://www.dognoodle99.cjb.net/images/tooltip-behind-bar.png

[Deth]

I got one!!!

[Kevin Wolff]

AOL has taken over your computer Daniel.....RUN!!!!!!!!!! http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif

[MarkJ]

I recently had the displeasure of installing Windows 98 and then Windows 2000 on my brothers PC. Anyway, with the number of times I had to reboot during the installation process (Around 15 per installation), this seemed appropriate.

[Kevin Wolff]

pic has errors. Check and re-attach.

[Jeff]

I'm cleaning my junk on my hard drive, and it says that I have 1 GB or more of old files. I clean them, and 5 seconds later they're back again. Usually they should be gone.

Link (http://members.shaw.ca/transit_info/old.GIF)

[Kevin Wolff]

The "old files" thing sucks. That estimate for it to free up, is only if it compresses. It's probably not happening.

[JR Ewing]

I know a long time ago I had promised to put that WWP page together and I guess you could say I've been procrastinating a little. I promise to work on it sometime this weekend, although I'm gonna be pretty busy but I'll will make time. Sorry for the long delay.

[Kevin Wolff]

pic has errors. Check and re-attach.



I just remember to check it again. ROFL!! http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[Eevee Morph]

A verry informative error http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gifhttp://www.pikapi.net/ownme.png

[JR Ewing]

Here's a preview of the banner for the WWP section on my website. I am resuming my work on the page and will be completely in the next week. I promise this time.

[Kevin Wolff]

Damn, that's good JR! o/\o

[Kevin Wolff]

Ok someone explain this:

[Crispy Critters]

Opening a huge file in notepad maybe?

[Kevin Wolff]

It was like 3.5 Meg. But the thing is, it crashed no matter what whenever I tried to open Notepad, until I reboot. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tinyted.gif

[Kevin Wolff]

I was on my dad's machine and got these.

http://www.dognoodle99.cjb.net/images/weather-error.png
^ And that popped up every 5 minutes. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/brickwall.gif

http://www.dognoodle99.cjb.net/images/win16.png
^ When I opened a new IE window. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/doh.gif

[Fragger00]

I can regenerate this error in Windows 98 anytime. See if you can spot it.

[Fragger00]

This is not really an error, but I always thought it was very inconsistent.

[TerminX]

Looks like neither of the toolbars are showing up. Oh well, that's Win98 for you. Can't really expect much out of shit.. hell, Win98 would probably clog up the toilet on top of it. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif

[Fragger00]

Dude! I'm getting low memory errors. What timing!

Check out this one:

[Fragger00]

Dude! I'm getting low memory errors. What timing!

Check out this one:

[Fragger00]

I don't know what happened with that one above. Oh well. Blam it on Windows.

[IgWannA]

this just happened the other day...

[Crispy Critters]

JR Ewing, when are you going to put that section of your site up?

[Kevin Wolff]

Alright, I've gotten this before, always out of NOWHERE. (I normally share the printer)

[Crispy Critters]

I've never had this happen before, my start button has disapeared. I can put my cursor where it should be and it will apear highlighted and I can click it and get the start menu, but the non-highlighted start button has just disapeared.

[Mountain Man]

Looks like you're using a non-standard Windows interface. Might not actually be a Windows problem.

[Kevin Wolff]

Maybe...maybe not. I've had my start menu disappear before, but it makes a bunch of other stuff happen. If you go to my website (look at profile), I have it there...but it takes forever to load.

[PlayfulPuppy]

I've never had this happen before, my start button has disapeared. I can put my cursor where it should be and it will apear highlighted and I can click it and get the start menu, but the non-highlighted start button has just disapeared.



That's an awesome skin. What's it called and where did you get it?

[Mountain Man]

Great BSOD gallery! I once saw a gag program for Palm PDA's claiming to be "Windows for your Palm!" boasting that it'd give you the exact same functionality you expect from your desktop PC. When you ran it, all it would do was show you a mock-up blue screen.

[Kevin Wolff]

Great BSOD gallery! I once saw a gag program for Palm PDA's claiming to be "Windows for your Palm!" boasting that it'd give you the exact same functionality you expect from your desktop PC. When you ran it, all it would do was show you a mock-up blue screen.



Hehe, thanks. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif Maybe I should have my dad download that to his Palm. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[Crispy Critters]

I've been using this skin and Window Blinds for over a year, and I've never had this problem.

To answear your question PlayfulPuppy, I am using Window Blinds and the skin is called

Avenger. (http://www2.wincustomize.com/skins.asp?searchtext=Avenger&sort=updatedate&order=Descending&library=1)

[Tedades]

Well, i got a error i couldn't take a screenshot of...

I tried to make a photo, but the camera was on 'low-quality mode', so it isnt very clear.
And i already clicked OK when i found out http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif

I was like this:

(A Black screen, no blue screen!)

---------------------------------------------------------
| .................................................. ..................|
|..................Please reinstall Windows................|
| .................................................. ..................|
| .................................................. ..................|
|.....................|......OK........|.......... .................|
| .................................................. ..................|
----------------------------------------------------------


I don't think i can recreate the error, I wasn't doing anything strange. But i guess starting IE6.0 is dangerous.

I rebooted and everything was fine... http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/brickwall.gif

[KillerByte]

I used to get a black screen on boot up which said I needed to reinstall Windows, way back when I was using Windows 95. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif

[MarkJ]

That's one thing I absolutley hate about Windows. As soon as anything goes askew, it's advice is to reinstall the operating system. Although it may be hard for MS to believe, not everyone wants to spend half a day reinstalling their OS, drivers and data (Infact, most users simply don't have the know-how to do it).

Whenever I get those messages, I usually ignore them. If they persistently appear, and the system still seems to function OK and you can still do your work, just ignore it. If it wasn't anything serious in the first place (Which it usually isn't), they eventually go away.

DISCLAIMER: Ignoring those errors probrably isn't the best advice, but it works for me. Use at your own risk!

[duke_fan]

The reason this advice is given is because it's often faster and more economical to reinstall the OS than track down the source of the problem. In many business environments, re-imaging the machine is often used whenever the problem can't be solved right off the bat to keep downtime to the minimum.

[Kevin Wolff]

---------------------------------------------------------
| .................................................. ..................|
|..................Please reinstall Windows............|
| .................................................. ..................|
| .................................................. ..................|
|.....................|......OK........|.......... .................|
| .................................................. ..................|
----------------------------------------------------------




I got something similar before, but it wasn't a black screen behind it, and it said "Error In EXPLORER.EXE: You must reinstall Windows." Thankfully I don't have to run Win98 ever again http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

[Geir]

I found yet another bug in XP.

[Mountain Man]

I find that with Windows, it's usually a good idea to reinstall the OS every 6 to 12 months (even with XP, as my wife has found out with her laptop). The nice thing for me, since I use Linux for everything except gaming, it's a snap to reinstall my copy of Windows 98SE because I don't have to install and configure a dozen productivity applications. Just the basic OS and hardware drivers and I'm done. Then I install my games as I get the hankering to play them rather than try to install them all in one fell swoop. It's worked out pretty well for me.

[Kevin Wolff]

I found yet another bug in XP.



I don't get it...what's wrong? http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif

[Geir]

the icon does not match the program! silly

[Crispy Critters]

Where is the icon? In your taskbar or something?

[Geir]

it's got to be eather taskbar or something... you chose.

[Kevin Wolff]

I almost forgot about this thread http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif

I just set up Windows 2000 on my new computer two days ago, but have already found this bug:

[Vyperfire]

Here you go. My computer has been oh-so-busy.

[Mountain Man]

^^^
That might possibly be a bug, but given the massive security holes in Windows, some hacker might very well be using your box as gateway for illicit activity!

[Crispy Critters]

It's not even possible to send that much data through 100mbps in an hour.

[Kevin Wolff]

Not only that, but I think Windows resets the number before it gets that high.

[Fragger00]

Here is one.

[IHerman]

It's not used as a gateway, then the outgoing number of packages should be higher.

And yes, that number is too high to be possible anyway.

[Yatta]

LOL THE IRONY! http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/doh.gif

[Kevin Wolff]

^ Yeah Yatta. BillyG was watching. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

I just saw this:

[Yatta]

^ Yeah Yatta. BillyG was watching. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

I just saw this:


I get that Recycle Bin error sometimes. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

[Renegado]

For some strange reason some of my XP icons decided to change back to their older versions.. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif

[JR Ewing]

Here's a good one. I was copying a rather large file however in all the times I've copied large files, I've never seen this happen before and even when it finished it still had a very large number in the window.

[Kevin Wolff]

^ Those are classic. 3.32 years in your case. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[Yatta]

For some strange reason some of my XP icons decided to change back to their older versions.. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif


That happens to me when I change from 32 bit to 16 bit color for Alpha Centauri. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif

[JR Ewing]

JR Ewing, when are you going to put that section of your site up?



Whenever I decide to get myself together and keep my promises...That section has been sitting on my HD for weeks now and I need to add more pics. I'll try to get it finished this week. (and two weeks later, its still sitting on my HD, lol)

[Kevin Wolff]

Ok, this first one wasn't Windows directly, but I think it had something to do with it:

http://www.p0stwh0restores.com/uploads/dognoodle99/bad-name.png

http://www.p0stwh0restores.com/uploads/dognoodle99/server-service.png
The thing is, not only was it running, but I also restarted it to make sure. No good. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/brickwall.gif

[Geir]

this is what my unzip feature on XP did:

[Dreams]

I recently had the displeasure of installing Windows 98 and then Windows 2000 on my brothers PC. Anyway, with the number of times I had to reboot during the installation process (Around 15 per installation), this seemed appropriate.



you can just click no when windows asks you to reboot, and only reboot after you've installed your last driver

[CyTex]

Try this.

Open a .wmv video using Media Player and hit Print-Screen.
Now open MSPaint and click "Paste".

Your video <font color="red">keeps playing</font> in MS Paint!
Works in Paint Shop Pro as well!

[TerminX]

Try this.

Open a .wmv video using Media Player and hit Print-Screen.
Now open MSPaint and click "Paste".

Your video <font color="red">keeps playing</font> in MS Paint!
Works in Paint Shop Pro as well!


Nothing strange about that. It's how overlays work.

[Yatta]

Try this.

Open a .wmv video using Media Player and hit Print-Screen.
Now open MSPaint and click "Paste".

Your video <font color="red">keeps playing</font> in MS Paint!
Works in Paint Shop Pro as well!


Try turning off overlays and see if it still happens. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

[Kevin Wolff]

This also prevents you from saving said movies into a screenshot. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tinyted.gif

[JR Ewing]

It's FINALLY done! The WWP section on my webpage has just been completed. Check it out at my website http://www.ryanscomputerhelp.netfirms.com

Go to PC Questions then click on Weird Windows Pics

[Kevin Wolff]

It's FINALLY done! The WWP section on my webpage has just been completed. Check it out at my website http://www.ryanscomputerhelp.netfirms.com

Go to PC Questions then click on Weird Windows Pics




The thing is, not only was it running, but I also restarted it to make sure. No good.



That explains the 2nd pic, but not the first. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

Otherwise good, man http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/woot.gif

[JR Ewing]

Yeah, some of those I had a hard time figuring out because the person that posted the pic didn't explain it.

[Kevin Wolff]

...and you say that directly to the person who posted said pic. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

Anyways, that could best be described as Windows protecting a file name that makes no sense for it to be protecting.

[Jeff]

Hey! I'm not running ICQ dammit http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tinyted.gif

[Kevin Wolff]

Ever open up two Task Managers? http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

http://www.redrival.com/thelair/taskmgr.jpg (too big)

[archagon]

http://www.p0stwh0restores.com/uploads/archagon/For%20XINMVII/Windows/Windows%20Bad%20-%20Chunk.jpg

http://www.p0stwh0restores.com/uploads/archagon/For%20XINMVII/Windows/Windows%20Bad%20-%20Download.jpg

http://www.p0stwh0restores.com/uploads/archagon/For%20XINMVII/Windows/Windows%20Bad%20-%20Infinite.jpg
(not an error, but still)

http://www.p0stwh0restores.com/uploads/archagon/For%20XINMVII/Windows/Windows%20Bad%20-%20Login.jpg

http://www.p0stwh0restores.com/uploads/archagon/For%20XINMVII/Windows/Windows%20Bad%20-%20Select.jpg

[Geir]

when I install ad-aware and update, I cannot close the window for some unapperant reason. the close button is there, but when I click it, it does nothing. I have to endtask the program in order to close it.

[Kevin Wolff]

I picked up a couple from my dad's craptop, which runs XP Home.

First, there's this, after I exited the Computer Management console. Note I merely X'ed out after a trouble-free session.

[Kevin Wolff]

Then there's this. The calandar is oh-so-accurate... http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[Kev_Boy]

Sam Fisher makes me scared now..

[Mike359]

Okay...

Go into Notepad and then go to
File >> Save as

Type in "Con"

This is what happens:

[Kevin Wolff]

That's been around forever. It's a DOS legacy fragment.

(Yes, DOS stuff, in XP. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif )

[Mike359]

I got plenty of pics!! Just give me some time to find them all! http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

[Mike359]

I had a pentium 2 that was an IBM 300gl. Anyways we removed teh HD for a comlicated reason and when whe turned it on it would show a very well made ascii art:

A floppy drive with an BIG floopy disk with and arrow pointing to the floppy drive http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

>>>>>>>>>>>>JR Ewing <<<<<<<<<<<<<
If you want I can recreate the error for your site its relly funny to look at http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

[Kevin Wolff]

Oh yeah, like an ASCII version of the flashing floppy disk a Mac would give if it didn't have a hard drive. Sounds nice, get it now. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[KillerByte]

I'll always prefer the AMIGA version. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/love.gif

[Yatta]

After switching to compact/skin mode...

[Mike359]

I'm purposly making my Pentium 2 break. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

I'll fix it after http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/woot.gif

[Crispy Critters]

I've always wanted to get a pic of this. Firefox locked up when it was trying to load an Adobe file, and when I had the task manager open it would leave trails inside of the window Firefox was in.

[Kevin Wolff]

Um...holy shit? http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif

Anyway, I have this pic. I staged it myself, but that doesn't stop it from looking weird. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

[biXen]

You know, all these pictures you've posted are basically 99% weird user, not weird Windows http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

[Kevin Wolff]

Me specifically? I don't think so. The last one I remember posting before this was a pic showing impossible dates. I didn't stage that.

[Kevin Wolff]

I just figured out how to turn on the "errors" display in Network Status, but it doesn't work...

[Mountain Man]

I'll always prefer the AMIGA version. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/love.gif


Now that's a thing of beauty. Except you always had dopey folks asking why the disk was upside down!

[Kennerado]

http://free.hostultra.com/~kennerado/whoops.jpg

[Mountain Man]

^^^

404 File Not Found

"Whoops" is right.

[Kennerado]

Stupid host ultra try this one, if it don't work copy and paste the link into browser.

image (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/0903/kennerado/whoops.jpg)

[Mountain Man]

That's no good either. Try this host: ImageShack (http://imageshack.us/index3.php).

[Jeff]

Sounds like XP is a little behind the times. Even with SP2. They need to support DVD+/-RW burning with their built in burner. Oh well. I used Nero to make my backups this time. I think I'll stick with Nero.

EDIT: The reason why I posted my DVD-RW make, was to say that I do have a DVD burner, and MS needs to take note that those who do have them should also be able to use the CD burning wizard.

[Jeff]

Here's another one. Okay, I've got a Athlon 64 3200+ and 1 GB of RAM. I should not be seeing this.

[Crispy Critters]

Looks like either your video card is having issues or you are using a program to skin XP and it barfed.

[Geir]

nope, same hapens with me, but it goes normal after a while.

[Jeff]

^ Yeah. I've had problems with this one site I visit, but every one besides that works fine for me. I'm not noticing any of that in games with my X800 Pro.

[Jeff]

I didn't even put this in the Recycle Bin. Sounds like MS doesn't even give a damn about it's own operating system.

[Mountain Man]

^^^
Well, that's what you get when every user has administrator rights.

[Kevin Wolff]

That happened to Yatta once, too... was the windows directory really in there? http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/redface.gif

Oh...what about weird Mac pics? http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

[TerminX]

Kevin Wolff said:
That happened to Yatta once, too... was the windows directory really in there? http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/redface.gif

Oh...what about weird Mac pics? http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif


Any picture of Mac OS will be weird.

[Dreams]

This happened to me twice http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif it just appeared when i returned from hibernate mode:

Random missing letters (http://members1.chello.nl/~j.demeij/bro.gif)

Also notice how weird some icon names on my desktop look http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif

[Fat John]

This crashed CS1 and tuned off my internet connection:

[Crispy Critters]

Talk about bringing out the dead, huh?

Anyway, I'm not entirely sure how this happend, but I was closing an unresponsive program, and I accidently right clicked on something while it was closing, and this part of the drop down menu kinda stuck in the task bar.

[Jeff]

I don't know how this ended up in the recycle bin. I wouldn't be stupid to put it in there.

[Geir]

we need this archived.

I have some holes in the uninstall progam that windows gave me:

long list of uninstalls part 1 (http://img69.exs.cx/img69/9620/newbitmapimage6wi.gif)

part 2 (http://img69.exs.cx/img69/194/newbitmapimage24nf.gif)

part 3 (http://img69.exs.cx/img69/2177/newbitmapimage34ra.gif)

[Fragger00]

Almost the whole list is like this.

[Joonas]

Fragger00 said:
Almost the whole list is like this.




Could not locate the funny... http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif

[Dukefan]

The Search function found the same four files over and over and over again. Look at the directories the files are in. Many of them are duplicate results.

[Vihermaali]

Kennerado said:
http://free.hostultra.com/~kennerado/whoops.jpg



HEY! http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif

AntivirXP Notified me of JAVA/Openstream.t trojan downloader when I tried to opent that picture!!

Don't send harmful links, PLEASE!

[Ivan]

Haha that's a good error screenie there, Fat John! http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[Joonas]

My turn. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tinyted.gif

[Kevin Wolff]

lol. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[IHerman]

Pressed the Restore Down button in FireFox:

http://www.heavyroad.com/misc/firefoxwtf.gif

[Orochi Avlis]

That's funny.
Heavy road, and it's bouncing up and down like it was on one. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[IHerman]

Heheh, didin't think of that.

Anyway. Here's another one. I have a program to generate webstatistics at my work, and it generated a page with this JavaScript Alert in it, god knows why:

EDIT - ok, apparrently somebody requested an url with the javascript alert in it, this URL was displayed in the report, but obviously it was recognized as HTML/javascript instead of text. Hard to explain but it turns out to be nothing.

[Mountain Man]

Since it showed up as an Internet Explorer warning, I find the word "vulnerable" very appropriate.

[Phayzon]

Ok this is great. I had to click my username, type my pass, and press printscreen to take this...

[Phayzon]

Heres another.

[Crispy Critters]

Kinda fake...

[John]

Vihermaali said:

Kennerado said:
http://free.hostultra.com/~kennerado/whoops.jpg



HEY! http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif

AntivirXP Notified me of JAVA/Openstream.t trojan downloader when I tried to opent that picture!!

Don't send harmful links, PLEASE!



HATW-AY?!?!

http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif owN-ay I'm-ay issedp-ay.

[Ivan]

John said:

Vihermaali said:

Kennerado said:
http://free.hostultra.com/~kennerado/whoops.jpg



HEY! http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif

AntivirXP Notified me of JAVA/Openstream.t trojan downloader when I tried to opent that picture!!

Don't send harmful links, PLEASE!



HATW-AY?!?!

http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif owN-ay I'm-ay issedp-ay.



Don't tell me you clicked it. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/doh.gif

[Triple X]

Phayzon said:
Heres another.


no this one aint fake got this one before

[Crispy Critters]

So, XP was able to load the operating system, background image, GUI, and was still able to bring up the error "Operating System Not Found?" I've gotten that error before too, but it was before the system had a chance to boot. It's fake.

[Phayzon]

Its not saying that that perticular OS isnt there, i cut out most of the real stuff. With a prog called OSfind, it searches certain drives for OS's (as if you wouldnt know they were there anyway :P ) IT searched a drive on my comp and found nothing. thats all ! :P

[Triple X]

Crispy Critters said:
So, XP was able to load the operating system, background image, GUI, and was still able to bring up the error "Operating System Not Found?" I've gotten that error before too, but it was before the system had a chance to boot. It's fake.


Need to explain how it can happen? ok here goes it can find some till its trying to find the os systems (system/system32 maps)

[Crispy Critters]

The OS (OS, meaning Operating System) systems?

[Phayzon]

lol

[Triple X]

ye ye you'll understand don't you else put out that last systems no actually i am right OS Systems not operating systems system wich is the system/system32 map

[TerminX]

Triple X said:
ye ye you'll understand don't you else put out that last systems no actually i am right OS Systems not operating systems system wich is the system/system32 map


Literacy as we know it is doomed. F***. I'd like to humbly request you retype your post, preferably in English this time. Thanks!

[NetNessie]

Triple X said:

Phayzon said:
Heres another.


no this one aint fake got this one before



Which Microsoft Employee thought itd be funny to put three '!!!' at the end of an error message. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/doh.gif *fake*

[KillerByte]

NetNessie said:
Which Microsoft Employee thought itd be funny to put three '!!!' at the end of an error message. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/doh.gif *fake*



It isn't a Windows error message.


Phayzon said:
Its not saying that that perticular OS isnt there, i cut out most of the real stuff. With a prog called OSfind, it searches certain drives for OS's (as if you wouldnt know they were there anyway :P ) IT searched a drive on my comp and found nothing. thats all ! :P



It is from a piece of software called OSFind.


TerminX said:
Literacy as we know it is doomed. F***. I'd like to humbly request you retype your post, preferably in English this time. Thanks!



Amen to that.

[Phayzon]

Thanks for telling him KillerByte, and Trible X, plz retype that in (readable) english. Thx.

[Crispy Critters]

Why do you keep calling it the system/system32 maps? Don't you mean directory? Or am I wrong about that too? And yes, please retype that post of yours.

[IHerman]

Folder = Map = Directory =

[Triple X]

what did i really typed that last unreadable thing? well now

[IHerman]

Yeah. English is probably not you primary language, and that doesn't have to be all tat bad. But your last post didn't make sense at all.

I propose we drop the entire OS thing, because this topic was about weird windows pics and not about useless discussions.

[John]

Ivan said:

John said:

Vihermaali said:

Kennerado said:
http://free.hostultra.com/~kennerado/whoops.jpg



HEY! http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif

AntivirXP Notified me of JAVA/Openstream.t trojan downloader when I tried to opent that picture!!

Don't send harmful links, PLEASE!



HATW-AY?!?!

http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif owN-ay I'm-ay issedp-ay.



Don't tell me you clicked it. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/doh.gif



http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tinyted.gif

Well now you know why I had to reformat my PC. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

[ikkejw]

'Map' is used in the Dutch version of Microsoft Windows for 'directory'.


Lemme search my collection for rare errors...

[ikkejw]

Next one...

[ikkejw]

And another one: [translation: The system contains more than 500 fonts. If you don't lower the number of fonts, this program will probably display incorrectly.]

note: I got this error when I tried to uninstall MSWorx because I discovered OpenOffice.org <3

[ikkejw]

I ph34r teh sausage.

[Joonas]

ikkejw said:
Next one...



You should report that.

[Triple X]

now i am happy i aint the only dutchy here well anyways i've got that duke 3d error too tried to spawn some much monster

[Phayzon]

that one with the time issue is great !!

[NetNessie]

Mijn Netwerklocaties http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

Funny localizations...

[TerminX]

ikkejw said:
Next one...


Problems with ATI's piece of horrid trash control center aren't rare.

[ikkejw]

That's why I have the Omega drivers now http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

And I swear those pics are NOT fake!

[Jokke_r]

I just use the normal Control Panel which is way superior, Control Center is more user friendly though and for noobs but it uses way to much ram and uses sucky .net framework and doesn't have any features that can't be enabled via controlpanel/registry. In every driver version most fixes are nowadays usually for the control center, which is sad.

[Rider]

Triple X said:
now i am happy i aint the only dutchy here well anyways i've got that duke 3d error too tried to spawn some much monster



It's also baked into the Starship Trooper TC for Duke3d

[Dreams]

http://www.64kpixels.net/more/winprinter.png

Me trying to run some Windows 2.00 programs on Windows XP http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

[Scooter]

wtf? the file is playing on the background and its on my hard drive (C), not in drive D. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif