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HELP! The application was unable to start correctly (0xc000007b)
I've looked up this error over and over and there's a 1000 "fixes" and none of them have worked for me.
Situation: Four years ago I purchased Windows 7 Home Premium Pack, which was a disk set with four licenses. I installed three of them on my wife's laptop, my laptop, and my desktop, all 32bit. I saved the 4th license for later.
Over the last year, many of my main software packages I've been using have dropped 32 bit in favor of 64. They are all related to Video editing. So I purchased a new 2TB hard drive and installed it in my desktop as a second boot drive. F12 on power up gives me the option to boot from my old 32bit drive or the new drive. I installed my final license on the new drive with a 64 bit version of Win7 Ultimate.
I then installed Adobe's Creative Suite CC, and it's programs seemed to work perfectly (Adobe Premiere, After Effects, Photo Shop, Etc.) But then I installed BlackMagic Design Resolve Lite and the problems began. When I double click on the icon, I get the error in the thread title: The application was unable to start correctly (0xc000007b)
At first I thought it was just a problem with this particular piece of software, but I received my new Autodesk 3d Studio Max yesterday, and when I try to start it, I get the same error. So I decided to check some other programs, and I found that Adobe Lightroom gives this error.
Now I don't use Resolve very much, so it wasn't a big deal, but I do use 3ds Max a lot, and Lightroom even more, so I'm very concerned.
Every "solution" I've found on the internet are specific to pieces of software other than what I have, and their solutions don't work. But there must be some common thread since the error is the same. Please help! I don't know what to do! Thanks.
Last edited by c131frdave; 28 Apr 2014 at 17:03.