windows - No error dialog is displayed on some machine for error 1603

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2014-04
  • eramit2010

    It's a very strange problem that I am worried about: Why isn't there an error dialog in one particular machine. On a Windows 8 system I am getting an error dialog for Fatal Error during installation (error number 1603). But in some system, no dialog box is appearing, but I can see that error number in the Event Viewer. What could be the reason for this type of behavior?

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    In that case you have no chance to change their font through the global Windows settings.

    Remember when Microsoft decided to lighten the dialog background color a little bit? (Windows 2000/ME) Suddenly many applications had dialogs with a mixture of dark and light gray colors. (Most times when glyphs/icons were not transparent and instead had the old dialog color background)