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My win32 program is crashing with (0xc0000018) error in Windows 7 but not Windows 10/11
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Mats
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I think it has to do with that the program is loading 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\kernel32.dll' twice.
This does not happen when I run the program on other systems than Windows 7.
Here is a screenshot of the launch output in Windows 7. (Visual Studio 2019) - programming in C.
This did not happen to programs that I compiled 1 month ago, but now it crashes on Windows 7. I have even tried to recompile old versions that worked before and thy do not work in Windows 7 any longer. I have many users running the program on Windows 7 machines so I really need to fix this.
Thanks
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Viorel 122.6K Reputation points2022-07-28T13:36:15.967+00:00 If you already found similar issues reported by people, did you try uninstalling the inappropriate antivirus software?
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Mats 1 Reputation point
2022-07-28T13:40:38.057+00:00 Have tried all solutions of similar reports. None have worked. But it seems that no one has the exact same issue.
I have also tried to uninstall antivirus software with no change.
I think it has to do with the kernel32.dll being loaded twice, but I do not know how to fix this. -
Viorel 122.6K Reputation points
2022-07-28T14:10:07+00:00 Does it work in Debug build?
Did you try some other simple projects or samples that do not use the third-party libraries?
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Tianyu Sun-MSFT 34,441 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff2022-07-29T04:01:01.313+00:00 Hi @Mats ,
Welcome to Microsoft Q&A forum. Is there anything changed on your machine or for your project(application)? Is it possible for you to change to use another machine(win7, VS 2019) and then rebuild the project and test again?
Perhaps removing AppInit_DLLs registry item/sub-items(Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows) will work. But I don’t recommend modifying the Registry as Registry is very important. If there’s an alternative machine and environment to use, you may try to remove it(back up the Registry before modifying) and test(reboot machine).
Regards,
Tianyu
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