A little bit of digging revealed that this is from missing Microsoft C++ libraries, and most often this can be 'remedied' by installing the .NET framework. After installing that, rebooting and re-installing the flasher app, it worked fine. My device is currently flashing as i type.
<br><br>tom w wolf<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/30/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Tom Wolf</b> <<a href="mailto:tomwwolf@gmail.com">tomwwolf@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div>I downloaded both the flasher app and the firmware. On my winxp box, the flasher app appears to be broken. When i launch it, i get "The application has failed to initialize properly(0xc0000135)"<br><br>tom w wolf
</div><div><span class="e" id="q_10c2618f90eeefcc_1"><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/30/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Ferenc Szekely</b> <<a href="mailto:ferenc@maemo.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
ferenc@maemo.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
ext Koen Kooi wrote:<br>>>> Nokia published the final release of the 2006 Software Edition. The<br>>>> image is available at <a href="http://maemo.org/downloads/nokia_770" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://maemo.org/downloads/nokia_770
</a> .<br>><br>> Cool.<br>><br>>>> Happy flashing ;)<br>><br>> Can't we apt-get distupgrade it?<br>><br>I'm afraid you can't. AFAIK there is no repo which could be used :(<br><br>Br<br>ferenc<br>
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