It's not a general solution. That solution is only for the minority of motivated people who aren't 'incredibly effing lazy'. Also that was one component of what

It's not a general solution. That solution is only for the minority of motivated people who aren't 'incredibly effing lazy'. Also that was one component of what I wrote and it seems weird to pick on it, considering that most of the solutions offered were technical. Not to mention that right now the manual doesn't even exist, I'm told that lots of people did in fact read the manuals that came with their Commodore 64's. I would also argue that Windows is partially to blame on the error messages front. I know when I used XP it would be completely libertine about giving me totally useless error messages. In fact it would give me error messages in hex. I learned as many other people learned to just click through an error message the moment I saw one, because the expected value of reading was too low.