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> For two, when you talk with other Windows admins about a problem you're having, you don't get "well it works for me" presented as though it is somehow helpful
by tolien 6y ago
> For two, when you talk with other Windows admins about a problem you're having, you don't get "well it works for me" presented as though it is somehow helpful.
If I had a pound for the number of times I've had Windows issues, Googled the error code (because error code 0x800704cf is so intelligible) and found some mix of "I'm having the same problem, how do I fix it? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯" or "just reinstall".
- peteri 6y agoWell that is a pretty understandable error code from winerror.h: 0x8007 - warning in facility 7 (WIN32) 0x04c7 - 1231L - ERROR_NETWORK_UNREACHABLE // MessageId: ERROR_NETWORK_UNREACHABLE // MessageText: // The network location cannot be reached. For information about network troubleshooting, see Windows Help. #define ERROR_NETWORK_UNREACHABLE 1231L
- tolien 6y agoIf you know to consult the C header files for Windows, maybe, bearing in mind that comment was in response to this: > The experience of finding solutions to Windows problems, which is in fact a significant portion of my day job, is vastly superior Second result for "0x800704cf windows 10" is this shambles on MS's own discussion site: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-update-winpc/0x800704cf-on-windows-10-pc/c3a01f97-e76e-407a-ae0d-4d9a58ba7fe3 https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10... where the poster says they spent hours on the phone to MS trying to get support and on the way had done some insane registry fiddling to try to fix it before discovering it was an issue with their user account.