Error starting Media Player Classic and other players
on Win2k SP4. = 5.00.2195 Reinstalled an updated media player classic (mpc-hc) 1.2.1008.0 and windows rejects starting the application with error 0xc0000142. I also still have an old mplayer classic 6.4.9 on the system (file dates 2006) and that now gets the same error. I had hoped to get more info via systinternals procmon.exe but cannot find a version of that old enough to run on win2k. (current has orphaned win2k). Using filemon.exe for tracing MPC's last access appears to be to DDRAW.dll
The 0xc0000142 seems a lot like an unregistered DLL. A good ol' trick has been in the years to re-register all DLL's. http://registrysnacks.blogspot.com/2008/07/reregister-all-dll-files-with-registry.html It costs nothing, and doesn't make any harm since non-registrable DLL's will simply throw an error. procmon, try this: jaclaz