4 Replies Latest reply: Aug 17, 2008 2:52 PM by Daryl Pritchard RSS

    LR2:  1st Launch of Demo - The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0150004)

    Daryl Pritchard Community Member
      Hello all,

      I've never used Lightroom nor had any need to really justify buying it when PS meets my needs, but thought I'd at least take a look at Lightroom 2 to see what it's like. Well, upon installing the trial to my Vista 64 system, the subsequent launch of LR2 only gave the subject "application failed to initialize properly (0xC150004)" error. I see no posts regarding this particular error, and Google searches only turn up that this error could be due to a wealth of things, inclusive of the usual talk regarding viruses or spyware.

      Notwithstanding that I've got quite a number of applications installed, I keep my system relatively clean and do not suspect anything awry. Many speak ill of Norton products, of which I use Norton Internet Security 2008 and have had nothing negative to say about it...no issues from it with reagard to PS CS2 or CS3, so I'd expect none with LR2.

      Oh...and as far as any departure from the default installation goes, I installed LR2 to a separate partition where most of my applications get installed, rather than to the system partition. Of course, that should be transparent and not matter.

      I'm largely looking to see if there are any known obvious LR2 problems that might cause such an error to arise. If not, I'll just uninstall and forget about it. It's not worth spending too much time to resolve.

      I have installed LR2 under the Windows XP/SP2 boot configuration of my system, using a separate installation path on my programs partition than used for the 64-bit version, and all looks to be working fine there. So, this may be more of an LR2 issue with Vista 64.

      Thanks,

      Daryl