Wednesday, March 04, 2026

Fixing Windows error 1400 in OTL tasks

From time to time I got error reports about "error 1400" in OTL and my response is always the same: "You are using it wrong." I never wrote anything about that, though. My bad :(

This time, however, I received an excellent error report with a minimal reproducible example (thanks!), which gave me an excellent excuse for this blog post ;)

Let me start with a little demonstration...