The application failed to initialize properly (0XC0000142)

I found another reason for the error:
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The application failed to initialize properly (0XC0000142). Click OK to terminate the application.
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after about 30 minutes of google-ing, I found somebody saying it could be a memory issue. It was at that time when I checked the swap file (I’ve been having space issues so I moved the swap file to another partition). And indeed, there was no space on that partition for the swap file to be created (I used a fixed size swap file).
Making enough space on that partition and restarting solved the problem.

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One Response to “The application failed to initialize properly (0XC0000142)”

  1. ciuly says:

    actually, it only partyially solved the problem.
    The real propblem was zone alarm. I had upgraded from 6.5 to 7.0 which aparently contains a serious bug.
    full discusion here: http://www.experts-exchange.com/OS/Microsoft_Operating_Systems/Windows/XP/Q_23454962.html

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