Well recently my computer has developded a problem that is royaly pissing me
off. Many applications no longer work and i reveive The application failed
to initialize
properly (0xc0000005). This happens with ehshell.exe, my ATI Control Panel
and a few of the installation programs so i am unalbe to install many htings.
I get many corrupted downloads as well. I figured it was a virus (despite my
antivirus software) and just decided to upgrade my windows with the same
version in order to replace the system files. This solved the problem
temporarily however within a few days the same problem came back. Does anyone
know what is causeing this?

On 3/06/2006, brycestejskal managed to type:
Sadly, it sounds to me like a possible hardware failure, either in your
hard drive or your RAM.

However, it could be many things other than what I guessed.

First, if it is hardware, stop using your computer. Especially, don't
write to disk - even bad RAM could mess your drive up by corrupting
data before it is written.

If possible, back up your hard drive now - and if it is a hard drive
problem, the best way to back it up would be to install it as an extra
drive in another computer, either internally or via a USB2 or FireWire
adapter, and use that other computer to run the backup.

There are also downloadable memory testers that run from a boot floppy
(or if necessary from a boot CD if you can make one).

http://www.simmtester.com
http://www.memtest86.com

or whatever you can find on your favorite download site or via Google.

Note: with problems that seem to me similar to yours, I have tested my
memory for hours each with both of these testers without a failure, yet
my computer got healthy after changing out the RAM.

HTH,
Gino

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