A major cause of 0xc0000142 errors is a corrupted Windows registry. If you don’t know what the registry is, it’s basically the operating systems central database system, used for storing important software and hardware settings. EXE errors occur for a number of reasons but mostly due to problems with the executable files or the EXE files. EXE is the extension of an application in Windows. Similar to the other types of files integral to your computer system, EXE files can run into errors every now and then. Some errors are common but some are hard to troubleshoot and fix.
Case
You try to launch an application in Microsoft Windows and receive the following error 0xc0000142:
This can occur with any Windows installed app, including the Citrix Workspace App (CWA) client. If this CWA client hits this error, you would receive the following error message:
Solution
This error point to either corruption of the application in question or some sort of corruption of an operating system component. Follow the steps below to resolve this error:
- Perform a clean boot in Windows to exclude the possibility of a third application or driver tampering with the operations of the app throwing the error. Details on how to perform a clean boot can be found at: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/929135/how-to-perform-a-clean-boot-in-windows.
- Run appwiz.cpl to get to the list of installed programs and features of Windows and try to repair or re-install, i.e. uninstall, reboot and re-install, the affected application.
- Check your Windows profile for possible corruption and clean up by creating a new clean profile. If issue persists, you might also want to clean up the default user profile as well by copying a known healthy default profile from another machine with same operating system version.
- Run the following commands to check for possible file system or other operating system corruption.
Source
Tfoc.exe - (0xc0000142). . - - Code
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-performance-winpc/error-0xc0000142/3da27a75-178c-4de5-b43c-c538e6005540