Windows startup problems

[Mad old tory]

Hi guys,

Housemate's laptop will not load up windows. Has been running a bit slow for the past couple of days but now comes off the Windows XP loading screen and simply hangs with a message quoting the code 0xc0000142 and then shuts down. Any suggestions? I reckon he needs to pop his windows cd in and try and repair it but he hasn't got it here at uni unfortunately.

The dialog box comes up with:

The application has failed to initiate 0xc0000142

 

[Over Clocker]

Tried safe mode? Otherwise, yeah, windows recovery console, do a check disk first, then look at other options.

Has he changed any drivers etc? Might be worth trying the last known good also.