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Windows Error Message Creators & Generator to create error boxes & screens

Error messages and dialogs are essential components of an operating system. And Windows manages to do it pretty well. There are a lot of error codes and their descriptions available that you can easily make out what is the actual underlying problem.

Create Windows error messages & screens

Did you know that you could create these error messages yourself? Yes, and that too without any actual operation happening background. You can easily pull a trick on your colleagues and friends by showing them some fake error messages and dialogs. In this post, we’ve covered a few Windows as well as Web applications that let you generate fake error messages and screens.

1] Windows Error Message Creator

The tool is in resonance with its name. You can actually generate real-looking error messages and dialogs using this tool. Windows Error Message Creator is a small portable Windows application that you can carry on your USB drive. Plug it in and create an error message on any computer. The tool offers a variety of options to create an error message. All the message boxes and dialogs are stock Windows-style, and no one can actually make out whether they are for real or not.

You can create a standard message box by choosing its type from a lot of options available. You can create an informatory, exclamatory, error, yes/no and other types of message box. Then you can enter the content, like the title of the dialog and the text it should display. Other than that there is also an option available to create a customized message box. Customized message boxes, as the name suggests can be completely customized. You can enter the text it should display, what kind of buttons it should have and what icon should it place. Make sure you make an original-looking message box to haunt your friends.

Another amazing feature of this tool is that it lets you create format dialogs and blue screen errors as well. Imagine yourself playing a trick on your friend my creating a fake format dialog on his favorite movie collection. That can be pretty horrifying. Or you could create a blue screen error and to help you with it; the program comes with a built-in list of blue screen errors and their descriptions.

To create a Format Dialog box, click Create > Format Dialog and fill in the required details.

To use the BSOD Creator, click on Create > BSOD and select the error code, etc.

If you are looking for a robust tool that can create error dialogs identical to default ones, undoubtedly go for Windows Error Message Creator. If you want to generate error messages from your script or batch file, then you can download the command-line version of Error Message Generator.

Click here to download Windows Error Message Creator.

2] Error Message Generator

Error Message Generator is a similar Windows application that lets you create error messages and dialogs. It is simpler than Windows Error Message Generator and comes with fewer options. You can customize the title, message text, and even buttons. And there are a variety of message icons to choose from. You can choose a yellow exclamation mark, red alert icon and much more. There are a few other advanced options available as well. You can create a resizable dialog or make an error message coming back automatically if closed. The tool works pretty well, but the error dialogs generated are not cosmetically similar to the default Windows errors. So, there is a chance someone may find out that this is a fake error message.

Click here to download Error Message Generator.

3] Atom Smasher

Atom Smasher’s Error Message Generator is a simple web application that lets you generate error dialogs in Windows 98 and Windows XP style. You can choose icons from an extensive gallery and also customize message text.

Visit atom.smasher.org to go to Atom Smasher’s Error Message Generator.

So, these were a few Error Message Creators. Bloggers and writers are sure to find these error creator tools useful, as they can help them create dialog boxes and error screens for the post they are writing.

4] Online Windows Error Generator

Cool online error generator is another web application that lets you create Windows error dialog boxes. Simply fill in the details, pick an icon and hit the Generate Error button and you are good to go. Check it out here.

How do you write an error message?

To create a fake error message on Windows, you make use of the Windows Error Message Creator app. It is compatible with Windows 11, Windows 10, Windows 8.1, etc. It helps you create regular error messages along with BSOD on your computer.

To create a popup message in Windows, you can use the Notepad app, which is an in-built utility for Windows 11/10/8/7. Whether you want to create a recurring reminder or popup message, Notepad does it very well. For that, you do not have to download third-party software.

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Post by HeroLinik » Tue Jun 10, 2014 4:48 am

I love that site. I use it quite a lot when making my Windows parody videos. Share error messages you have made off that site here (and don’t link straight to it otherwise they won’t work! Save them and upload them to an image-hosting site and link from there!) and discuss the site in general, including other error messages.

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Post by bossedit8 » Tue Jun 10, 2014 5:03 am

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Post by Marina » Tue Jun 10, 2014 6:21 am

Haha this is nice could come in handy some time

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Post by Murphmario » Tue Jun 10, 2014 6:51 am

I’m not uploading the actual pic onto the forum because lazy.

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Post by D. Flair » Tue Jun 10, 2014 7:30 am

Gave it a whirl, wasn’t as good as it could’ve been but.

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Post by RudeGuy » Tue Jun 10, 2014 8:52 am

EDIT: another one:

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Post by Mable » Tue Jun 10, 2014 9:46 am

I’m not uploading the actual pic onto the forum because lazy.

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Error Message Generator

Project Description

The Error Message Generator (ErrorGen) is a simple program that generates customized error dialogs. The idea was inspired by a web-based error generator (Atom Smasher, RIP) which created images of error boxes. My program, however, creates «real» error boxes that can be dragged around the screen and interacted with.

The command-line, scriptable version of Error Message Generator is called ZenMsg, named after the GNOME utility, Zenity. It’s a version of the generator that can be provoked from batch files and scripts. All of the named built-in icons available in ErrorGen are built-in to ZenMsg, or you can bring your own icon. Actually, ZenMsg is just a very light wrapper around my Perl module, Tk::StyleDialog.

Notes on Windows XP compatibility: this program should still run on Windows 11 but may need to run in Windows XP compatibility mode. These binaries were built way back in 2008 on Windows XP using something like perl2exe . If you have Perl/Tk available, running the source .pl file may be the best way to run the program. Last time I checked (around 2008), ActivePerl for Windows came with Tk or it was a simple ppm install away.

Features

• Fully customizable error box: select the title, icon, and message.
• Create up to THREE buttons for the error box and specify what each of them say, and which ones are «greyed out»
• Advanced features to make the error keep coming back until the right button is selected.
• A button that minimizes and renames the control window, leaving only the error dialog visible on screen.

Screenshots

ErrorGen in action, surrounded by example error messages.
(click for a larger version)

ZenMsg

The executable comes with an HTML help file. ZenMsg -? will display the same help file at the command line. The document describes how to use ZenMsg.

The program will print the user’s selected button text to its standard output; so if invoked by a batch file or Python script, you can use ZenMsg to ask the user a question and catch which button they selected.

There is no binary Linux version of this utility. The source code however is available and will execute under Linux; I’ve just not compiled a standalone executable (there are a handful of other utilities that do the job: see Zenity. Source code is available on the Downloads tab.

Windows Executable

Download ZenMsg
Version 0.01 — 2008/09/18
ZIP format/3.6 MB

The source code to ZenMsg.pl is at the bottom of this page with all the download links.

Tk::StyleDialog

If you happen to be writing Perl scripts, the underlying module used in ZenMsg is Tk::StyleDialog, a custom widget for Perl/Tk I had released way back in 2008. All the functionality and built-in named icons from the old Atom Smasher error generator are in the Tk::StyleDialog module itself.

Software License

Downloads

Windows Executable

Download Error Message Generator
Version 1.2 — 2007/06/28
ZIP format/2.1 MB

Linux Binary

Download Error Message Generator
Version 1.2 — 2007/06/28
TAR.GZ format/4.6 MB

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Project Description

The Error Message Generator (ErrorGen) is a simple program that lets you create
customized error dialogs. The idea was originally inspired by a web-based tool
called «Atom Smasher’s Error Message Generator» (RIP)
which created images of error boxes. My program, however, creates «real» error
boxes that can be dragged around the screen and interacted with.

🎁 NEW in January 2023: I have recreated my program from scratch and released
a new «2.0» version for the modern era — details below. My original 2006 version
is still available here.

Way back in 2006 while I was still in high school, I had created my original ErrorGen
program (written in Perl/Tk)
in one afternoon and released it on my site. After Atom Smasher’s site went down in
2022, I have seen an uptick of interest for my ErrorGen program — which was last
compiled in 2008 for Windows XP and shows its age and doesn’t run very easily on
Windows 11 in 2023.

So, on January 21, 2023 I built a new successor to ErrorGen, this time in
Go and to explore the Fyne UI toolkit.
The «2.0.0» release of ErrorGen has equivalent functionality to my original Perl
app, and the command-line interface I previously called ZenMsg is built-in to the
same binary as the graphical ErrorGen tool. You can call ErrorGen from batch files
or shell scripts if you want to ask the user a quick question!

Looking for my classic Perl ErrorGen from 2006? See over here
for the original ErrorGen page.

Features

This program has two main use cases:

• The default, MainWindow Mode shows a graphical UI where users can configure
  a custom error message dialog box to prank their friends with.
  • Select from one of the 72 original Atom Smasher icon images.
  • Enter a custom Title and Message for your error dialog.
  • Configure up to three buttons with custom text and mark some as disabled or greyed-out.
  • Create as many pop-up error dialogs as you want. You can also hide the MainWindow
    when your error box appears so that the control window is hidden and you can leave
    the error on screen to prank your friends!
• It also has a command line interface where you can
  invoke a custom dialog box from batch files or shell scripts, for example if you
  want to ask the user a question.
  • The user’s selected answer is printed to ErrorGen’s standard output so can
    be read by the calling program.
  • You can use a custom icon image (PNG).
  • You can include more than three buttons if you want, and mark which ones
    are disabled or the default (blue) button.
  • You can set a «cancel button» that is picked if the user hits the Escape
    key or X’s out of the window without clicking on one of the buttons.

The 2.0.0 release reproduces most of the features the original Perl version had,
including the command line interface which is now built-in to the one program
instead of having the separate ZenMsg binary. But I don’t plan on stopping there:
I have some fun ideas to add to ErrorGen in the future as well:

• Flesh out the command line interface further to create something even more
  useful for shell scripts, with features on par with GNOME’s Zenity
  and similar tools (e.g., file selection dialogs).
• On the MainWindow add a «Save» button that can turn your custom error dialog into
  a batch file or shell script that you can save to disk. The script would invoke the
  command line interface to show your dialog — creating an easy shortcut that just
  pops up your dialog without the MainWindow also appearing, for fun and pranks.
• On the MainWindow extend the library of built-in icons and allow users to easily
  browse and pick their own icon images. Similarly, the selectbox drop-down of icons
  I want to change into a grid view like the Perl version had for
  ease of use; this is my first Fyne GUI project in Go and still learning the ropes!

Command Line Interface

You can call this program from batch files or shell scripts to prompt the user with a graphical dialog box and read the button they chose from this program’s standard output.

For example, from a bash script:

#!/bin/bash
answer=`./errorgen --alert --title "Disk Failure" 
    --text "Failure to read from drive Z:/" 
    --icon defrag --button Abort --button Retry --button Fail 
    --default 1 --cancel Fail`
echo "You have chosen: $answer"

The full documentation is included below. Running errorgen --help from
a text terminal will have the program print its documentation to you, but
this won’t work on the Windows version since a program must decide if it’s
a graphical or a command line app and can’t be both.

Download

I package this program for Windows and Linux for 64-bit and 32-bit x86 architectures.

Windows

64-bit: Download Error Message Generator
7.0 MiB ZIP; Version 2.0.0

32-bit: Download Error Message Generator
6.8 MiB ZIP; Version 2.0.0

Linux

64-bit: Download Error Message Generator
7.1 MiB tar.gz; Version 2.0.0

32-bit: Download Error Message Generator
6.8 MiB tar.gz; Version 2.0.0

Source

The source code to ErrorGen 2.0 is hosted on my Gitea instance at:

https://git.kirsle.net/apps/errorgen

The program should compile anywhere that Go and Fyne work, including on macOS.

It is released under the GNU General Public License version 3.