The application failed to initialize properly

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A very generic error, with an error code that tends to tell you more.

Common codes and their likely reasons include:

• 0xc0000135 - Means the .NET framework is not installed. Download a redistributable. The latest will probably do.

• 0xC0000005 (STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION): A memory access violation, often caused by a program bug, and possibly by DEP (Data execution prevention) being overly strict. If you think it's the latter, you could disable DEP for the program, or completely, to test that theory.

• 0x0000022 - no read access to a system file, probably because it was copied in badly (bad installer, user), possibly because a virus scanner is blocking it, etc.

See also:

• http://support.microsoft.com/search/?adv=1 (that is, search microsoft support for that error code)
• http://www.tech-pro.net/howto_015.html