From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Fri Nov 22 2013 - 23:35:36 CST

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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