Not sure if this is the right forum, but here it goes. My Google Earth and a few other applications (Aventail VPN tunnel) no longer run. The eventlog has an entry stating that the program ended with acces code 0xc0000006. I've seen
Windows update take forever (10+ minutes) and eventually give up. Here is the entry for Google Earth:
Windows cannot access the file C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Google Earth\client\googleearth_free.dll for one of the following reasons:
there is a problem with the network connection, the disk that the file is stored on, or the storage drivers installed on this computer; or the disk is missing. Windows closed the program Google earth because of this error.
etc, etc.
The dll is present, looks good, the network seems fine and I ran chkdsk /f on C: No effect.
The event log also has an entry with Event ID 1000 (task cat 100) that Google Earth crashed with code 0xc0000006 with the same file path as the dll. I did reinstall GE a few times. Actually, uninstalling it is not even possible.
There are also two identical error message entries generated by atapi, "The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Ide\IdePort6." However, my three hard drives are all present and seem to be working just fine.
A few minutes earlier there are a few entries that say: Session "Circular Kernel Context Logger" failed to start with the following error: 0xC0000035.
You might conclude that this PC is a pretty sick patient. I'm out of ideas on how to proceed solving this problem. Any suggestions?
The only change to my PC that I can think of is an upgrade to Norton AV 12. I've disabled it temporarily, but nothing changed.
Thanks for any help you can offer.
Google Earth no longer runs. IS it NAV?
