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Windows Error System

The Microsoft Windows operating system uses a variety of APIs from various subsystems with different error code formats.

The online database contains error codes, symbolic names, descriptions, and messages from various official Microsoft sources, including the modules availble on the operating system.

All error code values and structure tables described in the Windows pages use the little-endian memory ordering for multi-bit and multi-byte definitions.

The different error code types are listed below. The following links details each type of error codes seen across the Windows ecosystem.

Error code types:

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