The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000120)

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fabioparo

Hi,

I have a problem with some scheduled applications on a win2000(sp4)
server machine. The applications are developed with Visual C++ 6.0 and
built on win2000 machines. Sometimes (about twice a week) i receive a
popup message when the application starts that is also logged in the
event viewer. The error is:

Source: Application Popup
Event ID: 26
Description: Application error: the application failed to initialize
properly (0xc0000120). Click on OK to terminate the application.

When I close the popup and restart the application it runs correctly. I
googled for this kind of error but didn't find anything interesting
about return code 0xc0000120. I don't know what to search for because I
cannot reproduce this kind of behaviour and the same executables run
smoothly on all the other servers we have. The only hint I have is the
definition of the error code in ntstatus.h (from Platform SDK):

// MessageId: STATUS_CANCELLED
// MessageText:
// The I/O request was canceled.
#define STATUS_CANCELLED ((NTSTATUS)0xC0000120L)

What should I look for? Should I monitor something particular?

Thanks for your help.

Regards,
Fabio
 
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