Application was unable to start error

[Hennieanton]

Good day everyone

I am not good with computers. I was used to using the antivirus program "baidu".

A friend of mine installed Symantec end point on my machine and it kept blocking everything I do, so I removed it today. Simple Control panel - add remove and I uninstalled it.

I restarted my computer and since then not a single one of my programs are working. All of them show the same error.

The application was unable to start correctly (0xc0000005)

I have looked for solutions everywhere.

I can't even uninstall my programs that don't work via control panel.

I also can't deactivate my firewall at all.

Please help me solve this.

Thank you.

 

[indianacarnie]

Welcome to the forums Hennieanton!

Have you tried starting in safe mode? You can try a system restore from there and/or root out the leftovers from the Symantec and Baido. You should always try the vendors uninstall programs for Anti-Virus applications.

 

[Hennieanton]

Thank you so much for your reply indianacarnie.

I went ahead and did a system restore in safe mode and seems like it worked. I can open my programs without the error.

Only problem I have now is I can't open Symantec and I also can't uninstall it. Will that cause problems or can I just leave it as is and keep on using baidu?

 

[Lance1]

Consider using the CleanWipe utility to remove Symantec Endpoint. The download link is at the bottom of the article under Download Files.