If I had a wish for christmas from GabeN or Valve in general, it would be actually meaningful error messages from steam.
If I had two wishes, I would like a community tool to share configs to make games work that require tweaking.
But I’d be very happy if I got better error messages.
I dont think Windows gives that information to Steam.
Just reboot and try again. It fixes it 90% of the time.
The messages can be improved without modifying the operating system.
What is the software currently attempting invoke/execute? Have that information included with any errors from the OS.
This is a very easy thing for a developer and gives context to the error. The hard part is going through all the code, deciding which operations should have additional messaging and adding god knows how many new lines of code.