Just so that the MS people know, I also am having this problem. (Win XP
SP2.) It is not just Dave. My Dell D620 (Core Duo) was working fine on
Friday, and today (Monday), this showed up. No new software installed except
a new McAfee virus definition file. Note: I also have both English and
Japanese language support on this system, so maybe that's a clue (and then
again, maybe not).
-Thomas
"davensocal" wrote:
>
> Hi All-
> I am having the same issue as described here..
>
> Win XP Pro, SP2, IBM T60, English and Japanese Lang support
>
> Cmd.exe, ping.exe, and unknown other console apps will not open in normal or
> safe modes. WinXP reports Application failed to initialize, click to close
> the application 0xc0000142 (or something close to that)
>
> In addition, I discovered that I cannot edit the fonts for cmd.exe, if I
> select the font tab in the right click>properties menu, it kills the
> explorer, and Dr. Watson Post mortem.
>
> We ruled out corruption of the two exe files by replacing them with known
> good copies.
>
> Registry rollback has no affect on this issue.
>
> One thing that occured before this issue.. I needed to install something
> that used batch files with sleep commands. WinXP does not support sleep
> commands, and I didn't want to root out all of the batch files for editing,
> so I installed Srvr2003 Resource Kit. After installation, I was able to use
> cmd.exe and sleep commands. Approx 48 hrs later, this issue was found.
>
> Any ideas? This is a preload system, so I do not have the original CD
> available as Yosh did in this chain.
>
> I will attempt scan disk.. any insight would be greatly appreciated.. I
> REALLY don't want to start over on this box (and there are no other issues
> that I am aware of)
>
> Thanks!
>
> Dave.