Cannot Launch Nearly Any Applications

[CobbleWalker]

Hey Forum,

 

I'm trying to troubleshoot for a freind of mine who was having problems launching csgo. We tried verifying game cache. We tried uninstalling and reinstalling. We tried ddu. The thing is, when we did ddu, and went to reinstall drivers, the AMD install service wouldn't run. As it turns out, almost no executables run on his computer, yielding the "Application was unable to start properly (0xc0150004)" error message. We tried reinstalling C++ as many solutions to this error suggested, but this too leads to the same error.  Anyone know what's going on?

 

Thanks,

CobbleWalker

[Enderman]

What OS and how was it installed?

[CobbleWalker]

1 minute ago, Enderman said:

What OS and how was it installed?

Windows 10 via CD.

Edit: He has the CD, if that's what you were getting at, he'd just have to reinstall his CD drive. @Enderman

 

[Enderman]

1 minute ago, CobbleWalker said:

Windows 10 via CD.

Edit: He has the CD, if that's what you were getting at, he'd just have to reinstall his CD drive.

When did these issues start happening?

Did he just install windows today or something?

[CobbleWalker]

1 minute ago, Enderman said:

When did these issues start happening?

Did he just install windows today or something?

Just this morning. As far he knows, he didn't do anything to prompt this. The Windows install is 6 months old. 

[Enderman]

Just now, CobbleWalker said:

Just this morning. As far he knows, he didn't do anything to prompt this. 

How many SSDs/HDDs are in his PC?

Are all windows updates installed?

[CobbleWalker]

Just now, Enderman said:

How many SSDs/HDDs are in his PC?

Are all windows updates installed?

Just an SSD. He updated Windows yesterday. 

[Enderman]

4 minutes ago, CobbleWalker said:

Just an SSD. He updated Windows yesterday. 

K well what I would try is sfc /scannow in command prompt, other than that I would do a clean install.

This is a really odd issue

[Energycore]

31 minutes ago, CobbleWalker said:

Hey Forum,

 

I'm trying to troubleshoot for a freind of mine who was having problems launching csgo. We tried verifying game cache. We tried uninstalling and reinstalling. We tried ddu. The thing is, when we did ddu, and went to reinstall drivers, the AMD install service wouldn't run. As it turns out, almost no executables run on his computer, yielding the "Application was unable to start properly (0xc0150004)" error message. We tried reinstalling C++ as many solutions to this error suggested, but this too leads to the same error.  Anyone know what's going on?

 

Thanks,

CobbleWalker

Sounds like you're gonna have to reinstall windows unfortunately. Seems like it's either malware taking control of your friend's computer, or a hard drive going bad.

 

In order to fix the malware one, a Windows reinstall is the easiest way, and for a hard drive going bad, you can detect it by plugging it into another computer and running CrystalDiskInfo in there.

If you do have a dying drive, you may have to replace it.

[CobbleWalker]

4 minutes ago, Energycore said:

Sounds like you're gonna have to reinstall windows unfortunately. Seems like it's either malware taking control of your friend's computer, or a hard drive going bad.

 

In order to fix the malware one, a Windows reinstall is the easiest way, and for a hard drive going bad, you can detect it by plugging it into another computer and running CrystalDiskInfo in there.

If you do have a dying drive, you may have to replace it.

What gives you malware vibes about this? Doesn't seem like anything I've seen in the past.

[Energycore]

Just now, CobbleWalker said:

What gives you malware vibes about this? Doesn't seem like anything I've seen in the past.

I too have never seen something like this before, but I got that feeling.

 

Actually, can you try to run CCleaner? If yes try to do a registry cleaning pass (back up the registry first so you can revert if the cleaning goes bad).