So, you totally need to get a few comp science, programing, and software development degrees if you truly intend to keep using Windows PCs. It appears that you and computers don't get along. How much do you spend on the Geek Squad annually?

Seriously though, what's wrong with error messages in English? Is MS simply trying to support the computer repair industry by popping up crazy, illegible messages of doom? They've got a long way yet to go before their products are average consumer-centric. Hopfully Vista stikes a little closer to the bullseye than even XP did.

Lol. Too bad Microsoft doesn't say what the error is in plain english. Then, perhaps, us John Does could fix it. If the error message actually said "Get a new hard drive" or "Get your hand off of the damn shift button" I would be able to understand. Instead, it gives you an extremely long code or it just beeps at your ass. As if I know what "Bleep" means. Stupid sticky keys thing... I swear that some of these errors just happen spontaneously. I've had a driver just shut off. It just shut itself off. Thank goodness I found a good computer guy, who doesn't charge for little things. It didn't even take him five minutes to fix it. Now if the error message would have said something productive like "Turn the damn driver back on" and provided step by step instructions, it would have saved me a trip to the computer guy, and I would have been spared his half-smile that basically says "It wasn't difficult to fix, you're and idiot."