Everything is better with pickles... except Windows

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Operating system indigestion pops up over chicken sandwich ad

BORK!BORK!BORK! "Everything is better with pickles," trumpets a Wendy's sign. Everything is also better with a helping of bork, if the screen is to be believed.

Do you want bork with that?

Spotted by an eagle-eyed Register reader in Vancouver, the display shows something amiss with Windows Phone Link – although why a PC encouraging customers to drop dollars on a Dill Pickle Chicken Sandwich needs the app is anyone's guess.

The error itself usually comes up when something running Windows has been a bit careless with stack memory. Perhaps there's been a stack overflow, a software conflict, or a memory shortage. The usual fix is to reach for the power button or perform a restart. The more technically minded might try to diagnose the whoopsie and fix it without a boot cycle, although had a more technically minded person set up the system in the first place, it's unlikely that the PhoneExperienceHost.exe application would have reared its ugly head in this way.

Phone Link connects a Windows PC to an Android phone or iPhone. The theory goes that users can keep track of mobile notifications, send and receive messages, or deal with calls from their Windows desktop. It arrived with Windows 10 as Your Phone before Microsoft renamed it Phone Link and continued adding features.

Ordinarily, the service doesn't use much in the way of memory or CPU. However, something has clearly upset the instance here, much as an excess of dill pickles might disagree with the customer.

While we're sure the foodstuffs on offer are excellent (although our reader told us they were only popping in for a Frosty Dairy Dessert rather than anything slapped with a dill pickle), we might give the chicken sandwich a miss this time. Even Windows appears less than keen. ®