MSASCui.exe The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000

[Guest]

I am using Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional with SP4 and all of the most
recent patches and updates as of about the past month. I Installed Windows
Defender and have received the following message when it starts up if any
user other than the Administrator is logged in. Has anyone found a fix yet?


Application popup: : The application failed
to initialize properly (0xc0000022). Click on OK to terminate the
application.

 

[Guest]

Hello John,

Whatever you do, (installing and updateting or unistalling) always as a
administratºr.

This is the key!
The installation as an admin is not enough.
You needed to login as an admin.

You will get the same error message after the installation again.
But after running the update from update.microsoft.com everything should be OK

Can you gº to Windows Update, select Express (Get high-priority updates),
and apply all offered updªtes
http://update.microsoft.com

Once that is finished, can you verify the update installs? There are many
pre-requisite files which are needed from windows update and signature update
with windows defender will fail until you hªve these files.

For the benefit of the community reading this post, please rate the pºst.

I hope this post is helpful.

Let us know how it works ºut.

Еиçеl

 

[Guest]

Any user who doesn't have read and execute rights to
\...\system32\gdiplus.dll (the file that Windows Defender said you had to
install to run it under Windows 2000) will get the error you describe. If you
COPIED the dll into system32, the dll should be assigned the correct rights,
but if you MOVED it into system32, it will carry along the existing rights it
had (maybe you were logged in as administrator and decompressed the dll to
your desktop where only the admin had read-execute rights and then MOVED it).
If you give read-execute to everyone, all users will be OK. I hope that helps.

Tom Albright
Indiana University

 

[Bill Sanderson MVP]

Thanks, Tom--that's helpful--and I'll try to remember it when I see this one
posted.

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