[Solved] The Application Was Unable To Start Correctly (0xc0000018). Click Ok To Close The Program

Have you seen this “The Application Was Unable To Start Correctly (0xc0000018). Click Ok To Close The Program” error off-late on your computer running Windows 8 OS? If yes then I have a solution for you here in this post.

This error prevents you from opening most of the applications on the computer and shows up the following popup every time you try to open any application.

Solution:

Step 1: Open the command prompt by pressing Windows+R

Step 2: Now type in regedit

Step 3: Now Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\­Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Windo­­ws

Step 4: After that search for APPINIT_DLLS and delete everything from it.

Step 5: Now reboot the PC for changes to take place.