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General Computer Support / Re: 0xc0000142 error

« on: October 09, 2014, 12:22:22 am »

Shane had worked for a long time and he has solved the problem. cmd is now working again and the error no longer pops up. Seriously, thank you very much for that! It'd be best for him to explain the situation. Thank you to Boggin as well for looking into the problem and replying to this thread.


*as a side note,Initially i tried to reset my computer following the instructions here http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?cc=us&lc=en&docname=c03546603#N89 , which was absolutely useless

Now HP has another option here http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?cc=us&lc=en&docname=c03489643 which uses the HP recovery manager. It seems to do more than the method above and may actually work.

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General Computer Support / Re: 0xc0000142 error

« on: October 03, 2014, 10:57:42 pm »

@Boggin - I selected the rootkit thing from mbam with the rootkit selected and also ran mbar but they said nothing was wrong. Thing is I fully recycled my PC once already back to factory settings but it didn't help. Would restoring to previous restore points be any different?

@Shane - I tried the all in one windows fix thing up thing, but couldn't actually run any of the fixes because they seem to require cmd. To be fair I haven't tried all of them yet but I assume they're all the same.

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General Computer Support / (Solved) 0xc0000142 error

« on: October 03, 2014, 07:47:32 am »

Hello, I recently brought an HP Envy 15 that came with windows 8.1. I only remember downloading winzip/daemon tools from softpedia/cnet before errors like "cmd.exe Application error - The application was unable to start 0xc0000142". This applies to others like cscript.exe, shutdown.exe and probably many more I haven't discovered yet.

Here's list of things I've tried
- Malwarebytes and the McAfee Live Safe that came with the computer found nothing wrong with the computer
- Tried CCleaner but no help. It did clean some registry but didn't seem to solve the problem
- Ran a chkdsk /r using recovery manager, no problems were found but was unable to send to event log because of something 50
- only able to run offline version of sfc because whenever I try "sfc /scannow" it says there's something pending. Nevertheless it said there were no problems.
- I even did the recycle PC option but problem persists, which scares me.
- tried running cmd in safe mode but didn't work even with administrator mode.

- This laptop comes with an NVidia 850M and Geforce experience, I read somewhere it could clash?


I'm out of ideas and google links. Can't believe I messed up my computer so early...haha.

Thank you for your time and help
Edward