[dayglored]

> as if "0x80146017" has any meaning to more than a few hundred people on the entire planet.

Well, as to that particular error code -- you're right. No one in their right mind is going to memorize all those hex codes.

But just like when you get an error code while doing Updates on a regular Windows system, you just paste that error code into Google and you'll get a handful of "real English" explanations. And of course a lot of indecipherable explanations as well, but you just skip them as with any other load of indecipherable Google results.

:-)

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And it would have been just impossible for microsoft to devote a few dozen extra characters to giving the user the correct real English definition rather than forcing them to google and guess, wouldn't it?