"An unhandled non-continuable exception was thrown during process load"

Question

This error message appears on a colleague's machine when he tries to launch a Windows application he's working on:

An unhandled non-continuable exception was thrown during process load

What does this mean, and how does one go about investigating what is causing it?

I have Googled it, but haven't found a clear answer. It seems to have something to do with problems loading DLLs.

Answer 1

Is there more information in the error message, maybe in the debug console? If there's a stack trace available, it might point you to the problem application, or better yet, the DLL that's causing the problem. The next step would be to see if there's an update available for that DLL.