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0xC000015A: STATUS_TOO_MANY_CONTEXT_IDS

Windows Error Code Lookup: Decode Windows error codes: Win32, HRESULT (0x80070005), NTSTATUS, Windows Update, msiexec and blue-screen stop codes, with what to check next.

Paste the number from an error dialog, event log, script or setup log: 0x80070005, 80070005, -2147024891, 1603, 0xC0000005, a stop code like 0x7E, a name like E_ACCESSDENIED, or a few words. You get every way Windows could mean that number (an HRESULT often wraps a Win32 error, so 0x80070005 is "Access is denied" too), its parts decoded, and what to check for the common ones. Names and messages come from the Windows SDK headers and Windows' own message tables; see Microsoft's System Error Codes and [MS-ERREF] for the full references.

Try: 0x80070005, 1603, 0xC0000005, 0x800F081F, 0x8024402C, 0x7E, access denied

0xC000015A = 3,221,225,818 = -1073741478

NTSTATUS 0xC000015A

STATUS_TOO_MANY_CONTEXT_IDS

During a logon attempt, the user's security context accumulated too many security IDs. This is a very unusual situation. Remove the user from some global or local groups to reduce the number of security ids to incorporate into the security context.

Becomes the Win32 error: 1384ERROR_TOO_MANY_CONTEXT_IDS: During a logon attempt, the user's security context accumulated too many security IDs.

Severity (bits 30-31)3: Error
Customer (bit 29)0: Microsoft
Facility0 (0x000)
Code346 (0x015A)