How to convert Windows error code into Simple English decription
While troubleshooting, most of the times you can see Windows OS is throwing error in Hexadecimal code. You may find this error in event viewer or msi logs, or CBS logs. Most of the time there wont be any description for this error code in the logs or events. You can convert this error codes into Simple error description. Here I am going to show how to do this. Lets take the below error code as an example. You can see from the above error message that calling of vbscript.dll was failed with error code 0x80004005. The error code is in Hexadecimal. You have to convert the code into decimal before finding out its error description. Lets convert the code 0x80004005 in to decimal. You donot need to convert whole number into decimal. Take only last four or three last digits from the error code. Here we are going to convert last 3 digit of the error code "005". Open the calculator in Programmer mode. Enter the value in Hexadecimal Click on Decimal to ge