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Vista error message random acts of vandalism

by Brad Linder on March 26, 2007 at 09:00 AM

With every launch of a new Microsoft operating system comes two things:

New error messages
A new ubiquitous advertising campaign.

Apparently fed up with the new "Wow" advertising campaign that has hit the streets of Prague, Czech painter Jeremiah Palecek created a set of print-your-own Vista error message stickers. He's designed an easy to print sheet so that users can buy a pack of labels, run them through the printer, and then go out and retake the streets (not that he, or we here at Download Squad condone vandalism in any way).

The error message on the stickers? Windows Vista's most baffling communication: "Error: The operation completed successfully."

[via Boing Boing]

Tags: boing boing, BoingBoing, error message, ErrorMessage, osupdates, stickers, vista, windows vista, WindowsVista

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Grammar freakMar 26th 2007 11:45AM

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This is pretty retarded. I'm pretty sure that this error dates to at least Win98, and even then I'm not sure if it's an windows error or whether it's something from a different, poorly-coded application.

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RPMar 26th 2007 12:25PM

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A funnier message would be the super-annoying UAC (User Account Control) dialog. From the Apple Vista commercial: "You are coming to a sad realization -- Allow or Deny?". This video cracks me up -- because it's so sad/frustrating: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2bByYgk4dk

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nickwwApr 23rd 2007 10:43PM

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Security Center service failed to start due to the following error: The account specified for this service is different from the account specified for other services running in the same process.

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nickwwApr 23rd 2007 9:38PM

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The Security Center service failed to start due to the following error: The account specified for this service is different from the account specified for other services running in the same process.

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