How To Create Windows Error Messages

Here’s a quick how to on creating your own Windows Error messages.

1. Open up notepad and copy/paste the following text:
   X = MsgBox(“Box Text”, 0+16,”Box Title”)
2. Edit the words in “Box Text” with your error message.
3. Edit the words in “Box Title” with the title of your error message.
4. Optionally, you can also change the number/s (listed below) to display different buttons.
5. Click on File > Save As…
6. Name the file anything you want and add the .vbs extension to it.
   Ex: error.vbs
7. Open your newly created file to see the error message.

If you want to get creative you can modify the icon and change the name to something like awesome game or something similar.

Button Configurations Below:

• 0 OK button
• 1 OK and cancel buttons
• 2 Abort, Retry, Ignore buttons
• 3 Yes, No and Cancel buttons
• 4 Yes and No button
• 5 Retry and Cancel buttons

• 16 Critical Message icon
• 32 Warning query icon
• 48 Warning message icon
• 64 Information message box

• 0 Normal message box
• 4096 Always stays on top of the desktop