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Look on the bright side...
it gives you something to blog about.

Incidently, I think you misunderstood the real meaning of "Get Help".

Anyway: http://taurarian.mvps.org/WindowsXP/0x8024402f.htm

Such error messages are deeply frustrating, but aren't you overstating it a bit when you say "Windows is in fact crammed full of them"?
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