On July 29, 2015, Microsoft released the long awaited Windows 10. Anyone who has Windows 7 or higher gets the upgrade for free. This is a great move for Microsoft in order to quickly get the masses to move over to their supposedly last main Windows version. From here on, Windows 10 users will get updates much like apps get updates.
Anyway, overall the update from Windows 7 to 10 on my computer went pretty smooth. The main hiccup during the update was mainly to the process of switching to an online Microsoft account as the computer login. I followed the steps as prompted, yet the process would just take me around in circles, always coming back to asking me for the my Microsoft account, my password and looking like it was going to work.
I got tired of trying to make it work, so I just cancelled out of it and restarted my computer. Then it happened. It prompted me to login using my online Microsoft account. I typed my password and was able to get into my desktop.
S0 far all the programs I use on it are working except for the PC version of Minecraft. After the upgrade launching Minecraft causes the error “The application was unable to start correctly (0xc0000018).”
At first I thought that I needed to update my version of JAVA. I did that but the error continued. Then I did a search on the web for that error message and I found my answer at http://goo.gl/0iUKo2. I asked that you delete the Windows registry entry APPINIT_DLLS located at:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Windows
After I deleted that entry and restarted Windows, I was again able to run the PC version of Minecraft on my computer. Note that I’m not 100% sure if this issue was caused by the update to Windows 10 because I installed the BETA version of Minecraft for Windows 10 before trying to run the PC version. Regardless, if you happen to run into this issue, the solution requires the deletion of the APPINIT_DLLS parameter located at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Windows.
Thanks for reading. Let me know by commenting below when you started experiencing this issue when launching the PC version of Minecraft.