{"id":3160,"date":"2017-07-01T01:14:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-30T23:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/?p=3160"},"modified":"2021-04-18T00:20:04","modified_gmt":"2021-04-17T22:20:04","slug":"windows-10-error-0xc000007b-in-accelerometerst-exe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2017\/07\/01\/windows-10-error-0xc000007b-in-accelerometerst-exe\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 10 error 0xc000007b in AccelerometerSt.exe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; display: inline;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/winb.jpg\" width=\"58\" height=\"58\" align=\"left\" \/>Users of Windows 10 are facing probably a strange issue after an update. Each time after login, an error code 0xc000007b is reported for application <em>AccelerometerSt.exe<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>The issue<\/h2>\n<p>I stumbled upon this behavior within a German forum. A user wrote: <em>After an update for Windows 10 I receive an AccelerometerSt.exe dialog box with the error message shown below. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/LDGBgoI.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The error dialog box says, there is an '<em>AccelerometerSt.exe \u2013 Application error' <\/em>in the title. The error message says:<em> The application could not be started ( 0xc000007b)<\/em>. All a user can do, close the application via OK. This error has also been reported for Windows 8.1 after updates.<\/p>\n<p>Error code 0xC000007B stands for \u00a0STATUS_INVALID_IMAGE_FORMAT. Something went wrong with a library image file (probably mixed dll versions). Because that occurs after an update, it indicates an application incompatibility. In most cases, a re-install of the application should cure this issue.<\/p>\n<h2>What is AccelerometerSt.exe for?<\/h2>\n<p>Searching the web for <em>AccelerometerSt.exe <\/em>reveals <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20170128022200\/http:\/\/h30492.www3.hp.com:80\/t5\/Notebook-Betriebssysteme-und-Software\/AccelerometerST-exe-Anwendungsfehler-0xc000007b\/td-p\/371377\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this entry<\/a>. The application is preinstalled on some HP systems. <em>AccelerometerSt.exe <\/em>belongs to 'HP 3D-Driveguard (HP ProtectSmart Hard Drive Protection)' and shall protect disk from damaged.<\/p>\n<p>The fix for the error message given above is: Uninstall the HP tool via control panel reboot und check, whether HP offers a new version of <em>AccelerometerSt.exe<\/em>. Install this verison and check, if the issue is guen.\u00a0If not, omit the tool from your system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Users of Windows 10 are facing probably a strange issue after an update. Each time after login, an error code 0xc000007b is reported for application AccelerometerSt.exe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[463,2],"tags":[911,194],"class_list":["post-3160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-issue","category-windows","tag-error-0xc000007b","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}