Yesterday I’ve tryed to run a .bat file and got an error: “The application was unable to start correctly (0xc0000142). Click OK to close the application.”. I thought some windows file got corrupted somehow so I tryed opening the cmd.exe to run a system check with the “SFC /scannow” command, but when I tryed to open the cmd.exe I got the same error message. After trying a great number of suggestions on how to fix this issue from a series of forum posts, youtube videos, microsoft’s help page, etc; I tryed turning off the Kaspersky Internet Security and that fixed the problem. I find this very strange because I’ve been using Kaspersky for about 2 years now and I never had any problems running either .bat files nor running the cmd.exe (which is a core program of windows 10) until now. As long as I turn off Kaspersky all .bat files and the cmd.exe function normaly, but when I turn Kaspersky back on I start to get the same 0xc0000142 error whenever I try opening .bat files or the cmd.exe. Don’t know if it’s related to any recent updates, or what the problem is, but I hope you guys can fix this so I don’t have to turn off my PC protection whenever I want to use the cmd.exe. I use windows 10 (don’t know if it will matter or not).
