From: Thiau Fu Ang (ang.thiaufu_at_gmail.com)
Date: Fri Nov 15 2013 - 23:43:51 CST

Hi,

Yup,I had installed VMD in administrative mode. The error code just seem
too general. I wonder what is going wrong.

Regards,
Thiau Fu

On 16 November 2013 07:24, John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:

> Hi,
> I assume that you were logged in as the administrative user
> when you tried to install VMD? You may have to tell Windows
> to run the VMD installer with administrative privieleges if
> you have any trouble. I have a Windows 8 laptop myself and I
> had no trouble installing VMD on it.
>
> Cheers,
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 12:51:06PM +0800, Thiau Fu Ang wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am currently using Windows 8, the spec for this computer is like
> > Inter (R) Core(TM) i5-3220M CPU @ 2.60GHz
> > 4.00GB RAM
> > 64-bit
> > NVIDIA-GEFORCE 610M, 2GB
> > The installation was going smoothly, but fail to open the application
> > after it was done.
> > The message below has shown up,
> > "The application was unable to start correctly (0xc0000142)"
> > I wonder what is the problem, and i really hope to use VMD for my
> > research.
> > Could anyone help me?
> > Thanks very much.
> > Regards,
> > Thiau Fu
>
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