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An error message is a message displayed when an unexpected condition occurs, usually on a computer or other device. Error messages are often displayed using dialog boxes. Error messages are used when user intervention is required, indicate that a desired operation has failed, or give very important warnings such as being out of hard disk space. Error messages are pervasive throughout computing, and are part of every operating system, or computer hardware device. Proper design of error messages is an important topic in usability and other fields of human-computer interaction.
Here are some common computer-related error messages that occur in almost all programs and their causes:

"Out of memory" - occurs when you've run out of memory or try to load a file too large to store in RAM. The fix is to close some programs or get more memory.
"Low Disk Space" - occurs when the hard drive is full. When not enough memory is present, swap file is used and is located on the hard drive. To fix this, close some programs (to free swap file usage) and delete some files, normally temporary files or get a bigger hard drive, or either back up files onto disk.
Invalid page fault errors
General protection fault errors
The blue screen of death
"File not found" - the file you were trying to open can't be found. The file may have been damaged, moved, deleted, or a bug causes it
"The device isn't ready" - most often occurs when you've no floppy disk in the floppy disk drive and try to perform tasks involving the floppy disk or from a bad disk

Famous error messages

Abort, Retry, Fail?

Windows 95 Windows has detected an undetectable error.

Bad command or file name

PC LOAD LETTER

Lp0 on fire

The operation completed successfully - Apache Server

Error 1 - Operation Complete

Error message linguistics

The amount of memory available to programs has historically increased exponentially according to Moore's Law; contrapositively, it decreases exponentially into the past.
Due to such pressures, past programmers were innately sensitive to memory consumption, and such sensitivities extended to error messages. Extraneous words were shunned, no matter their grammatical necessity. "File not found" could have read "The file couldn't be found," but such a statement would have been twice as memory-expensive.

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