Application failed to initialize: 0XC0000142. Please help.

[Speedy Gonzales]

 have windows XP home version, there are 4 different users that can login, and when I log in I keep getting this error message and it won't go away. WinStatKeep.exe - Application Error
The application failed to initialize properly 0xc0000142 over and over
or C:\program files\internet explorer\iexplore.exe
insufficient system resources exist to complete the requested service. Help please!!!!!!!!! woops wrong forum.

[ale52]

Check it out:

http://www.liutilities.com/products/wintaskspro/processlibrary/winstatkeep/

http://www.greatis.com/appdata/d/w/winstatkeep.exe.htm

This is not good.  Go to the run command and type    ipconfig        look for the reference to this file and uncheck it / reboot into Safe Mode & run your AV & AS software.

Alan <>< 

[Speedy Gonzales]

10X Alan, but as I am unfamiliar with abbs, what do AV & AS stand for

[Jonas Wauters]

AV= Antivirus
AS= Antispyware
I would suggest that you take a look here. (for free AV and AS)

Jonas

[hahman14]

i noticed ale52 had a typo......i believe he wanted u to go to Start/Run/msconfig....not ipconfig ......

[Speedy Gonzales]

Hi guys... I hope there is another way round this 'cause I couldn't even log on  in Safe mode....Any ideas??....10X

[hahman14]

you should still be able to access msconfig in real mode.

[Speedy Gonzales]

Hi aga...the notebook is caught up in a restarting loop and would not go past the F8 screen. If i select any or none of the safe modes, it would continue to restart no matter what??..Can't get a pin on this problem!!..Any suggestions?...

[Jonas Wauters]

Well what happens?
Do you get a blue screen?
Are you able to read it or is it to fast?

Jonas

[Speedy Gonzales]

Hi jonas,
thanx ofr ur reply....Yes , I am getting a bllue screen, and it is too fast. Nevertheless, I managed to freeze it @ the blue screen through the option in f8 saying ''Disable auto restart on system failure'. ..Anyway, the blue  screen says,
****STOP: {0X00000024, 0X82E9CEF0, 0XC0000102, 0X00000000}.

By the way, my OS is winxp Pro, not Home edition.

10X agn man,..Looking 4ward to hearing from all you guys.

[patio]

This error is caused by a seriously fragmented hard drive or an actual physical problem with the drive itself...

If you are unable to start Windows normally you may have to swap it into another machine to run both chkdsk and defrag on that drive.

I would also visit the drive manuf. site and DLoad and run their diagnostics to see if the drive is getting ready to fail.

When you move it to another machine make sure it is jumpered as slave and DO NOT try to boot it in the other machine...

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