Here are the true meanings of many of those error messages Windows users encounter from time to time:
It says: "Press Any Key"
It means: "Press any key but it still ain't gonna work right!"
It says: "Press A Key"
(This one's a programmer's joke. Nothing happens unless you press the "A" key.)
It says: "Please insert disc 2"
It means: "Because I know darn well there is only 1 disc in the box."
It says: "Fatal Error. Please contact technical support quoting error no. 1A4-2546512430E"
It means: "... where you will be kept on hold for 25 minutes, only to be told that it's a hardware problem and to contact the manufacturer of your computer."
It says: "Installing program to C:\...."
It means: "... And I'll also be writing a few dozen files into c:\windows\system and c:\windows\system32 where you'll NEVER find them again."
It says: "Not enough memory"
It means: "I don't CARE if you've got 1GB of RAM in your nifty new machine , I want to use that tiny bitty of special RAM in the first 640kb."
It says: "Cannot read from drive D:...."
It means: "... HOWEVER, if you put the CD in correct side up, then we can talk..."
It says: "Please Wait...."
It means: "... indefinitely!"
It says: "Directory does not exist...."
It means: ".... any more. Whoops!"
It says: "The application caused an error. Choose Ignore or Close."
It means: ".... Makes no difference to me, you're still not getting your work back."
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