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From: Thiau Fu Ang (ang.thiaufu_at_gmail.com)
Date: Wed Nov 27 2013 - 01:36:58 CST

Hi John,

It still doesn't work.
Then, I install ubuntu linux and it works fine there.
Thanks for your time and help.

Best wishes,
Thiau Fu

On 23 November 2013 13:35, John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:

> Hi,
> Have you tried re-downloading the VMD installer? It is also
> possible that your installation image was corrupt. I've seen this
> sort of thing happen with something like 20 people in the past, where
> when they re-downloaded VMD (sometimes they had to use a different network)
> the problem with the installer went away. As far as I know, there was
> never a case where the installer actually failed with a non-corrupt
> download.
>
> Cheers,
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
> On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 01:43:51PM +0800, Thiau Fu Ang wrote:
> > 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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> > Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
> > University of Illinois, 405 N. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
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>
> --
> NIH Center for Macromolecular Modeling and Bioinformatics
> Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
> University of Illinois, 405 N. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
> http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~johns/ Phone: 217-244-3349
> http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/
>