Application failed to initialize 0xc0000022 - Access rights to System32 DLLs

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From: Tim McLeod (mail_at_timmcleod.co.uk)
Date: 08/04/04 

Date: 4 Aug 2004 07:12:24 -0700

Hi Andrew,

I had EXACTLY the same issue on our Win2k Citrix farm after installing
a new VB application. We found that the ICA clients got this error
message and the Winterm devices suddenly failed to log in.

It turns out that our VB developer's workstation had been upgraded to
VB6 SP5. Since then all the packaged installers he creates install the
msbvm60.dll but fail to give access to it from non admin users (pretty
fundamental you would have thought) Anyway to fix the problem get
properties on msbvm60.dll (its in C:\winnt\system32 just in case you
didn't know) and give "Everyone" at least Read access to it.

Tim

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Hi group

I have a customer system (Win2000 terminal server set-up) where VB
programs
are running fine if the user has Admin rights but if not, they were
getting
the error message "Application failed to initialize properly - error
0xc0000022".

The cause of the problem has been identified as the security settings
of the
installed DLL / OCX in ~~\system32 folder.

Those DLLs (ie MSVBVM60.DLL) do not allow ANY access to ordinary
users.

I spent quite a while searching Google and did find a post which
pointed me
in the direction of the DLLs - But several posts and our network guys
just
took the attitude of giving the users admin rights !! (Well the
problem goes
away).

Given that I don't seem to have any say in the matter of access rights
to
DLLs, the software is distributed using the P&D Wizard, - Can anyone
provide
info on what needs to be done to avoid this problem ?

(Manually amending the properties of all DLLs etc in SETUP.LST is not
my
idea of fun)

tia

Andrew

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