Need help - getting message "this app can't run on your pc"

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Title says most of the problem.

Some backstory:
Over the past 3 days my computer has been crashing. I have an Alienware x51 R2 16GB.
Yesterday, it kept rebooting itself for 4 hours. I had to wait for it to stop and then ran it in safe mode. The main page came up with "Personalized settings not responding". Pc crashed shortly after for another 2 hours. Is this hardware failure, or a virus? I've been downloading a lot recently.

Right now, I can't open applications. It says "this app can't run on your pc", screenshot here: http://prntscr.com/4xd5xn

I can't run cmd in administrator, it says The application was unable to start correctly (0x0000142)

I run Windows 8 64 bit.

I need help/solutions and advice. I've never been so frustrated. Thanks for any answers, I appreciate your help.
 
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well often people don't see the status codes that start with a c They see the code as a zero or don't notice it.

problem is (0xC0000142) STATUS_DLL_INIT_FAILED
is different from (0x0000142) ERROR_BUSY_DRIVE

in either case I would go check to confirm that the drive has not been disconnected while the system was in sleep mode. if that happens only portions of the OS that are loaded into memory will work when the system is used. You have 16 GB so most of the OS will continue to work with the drive disconnected or will not fail until the system does a full powered down shutdown.
Waking up from sleep will still work until you actually need something from the hard drive that is not loaded by default or cached in standby memory...
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well often people don't see the status codes that start with a c They see the code as a zero or don't notice it.

problem is (0xC0000142) STATUS_DLL_INIT_FAILED
is different from (0x0000142) ERROR_BUSY_DRIVE

in either case I would go check to confirm that the drive has not been disconnected while the system was in sleep mode. if that happens only portions of the OS that are loaded into memory will work when the system is used. You have 16 GB so most of the OS will continue to work with the drive disconnected or will not fail until the system does a full powered down shutdown.
Waking up from sleep will still work until you actually need something from the hard drive that is not loaded by default or cached in standby memory.

So, boot into BIOS and make sure you can see your hard drive then try to boot again.
if it fails to boot, your access to the drive was lost.



 
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