error message mania!! please help!!

Question

i am really gettin annoyed with my machine lately... even though i have had it for quite a while now, just under 2 years in fact!

i have a Dimension 8200 with a _NEC CD-RW NR-9100A and have been using Roxio Easy CD Creator 5.2 Basic since i bought the silly machine.

it has been working fine until recently some error messages have started to pop up, specifically:

"Application Error: The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000005). Click on OK to terminate the application."

due to this i re-formatted my hard drive and re-installed Easy CD Creator and but now as well the Application Error message, the following error message is also displayed:

"Easy CD Creator: Cannot create Creator! Error returned 0x80040154"

anyone know the problem? (the solution to either error message would be appreciated)

PS. The 'Application Error' message usually pops up when i attempt to open any .EXE file namely AOL Messenger Setup, WinAmp setup, RealPlayer Gold setup etc. I have a separate message set up for this subject:
http://delltalk.us.dell.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=sw_winxp&message.id=113920

Please help!!

Message Edited by AsianLondoner on 05-13-2004 08:12 PM

Message Edited by AsianLondoner on 05-13-2004 08:13 PM

sweetiepietwo · Answer

did you ever find a solution to your problem because i am having the same problem. please help!!!

jwatt · Answer

Are you referring to the problem about not being to run any program whose extension is ".exe"? If so, there's a remarkably nasty virus that produces this symptom. If you are unable to even scan your machine for viruses, please post a new message in the Virus Information and Removal board for help.

Jim

sweetiepietwo · Answer

i was looking for a solution to fix the easy cd creator problem. i cannot do any thing, data or music cd because it keeps giving me an error message. how can i fix it. i have looked everywhere for downloads to fix the problem. please help!!!!

AsianLondoner · Answer

i did have that problem but i soon realised that it wasn't to do with ALL ".exe" files.

to be exact, when i tried to open the uninstall program of AOL Messenger (which is by the way called UNINSTALL.EXE or sumthing or other - but it is an .EXE file!) the error as described in the earlier message kept popping up so i just deleted the whole program, but the weird thing was what happened when i opened the file called "RealPlayerGOLD.exe"

the error message would pop up and so the installation of the Real Player Gold would not go ahead, but when i downloaded another copy and ran it, it worked perfectly fine so i don't know whats happened. i havent had any more problems with anymore ".EXE" files.

sweetiepietwo: referring to the error message that came up when i ran Easy CD Creator (ECC), thats another weird thing. when i ran ECC at first, the error message came up but after a few days of when i got annoyed with the machine and stopped using it, i started ECC no message came up and now its working fine again! sorry i cudn't be much help. maybe if you described what the message was and what problem your having it mite help.

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