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P: adobe premiere error 0xc0000142

Forum|Forum|9 months ago
April 10, 2025
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I had an issue with Premiere not sending the projects to Encoder, then I noticed they both have a new update so unfortunately I updated them.

Since then I am can't start either of them getting the error 0Xc0000142 message. Other adobe applications such as After Effects, Audition and Photoshop are still working fine.

I have tried the following fixes depending on what I found on the internet:

* Uninstall and reinstall the applications.

* Turn off / Unplug my second monitor. (tried with both monitors).

* Made sure windows is up to date.

* Reverted to an older version of windows.

* Disable all windows startup programs.

* Turn off windows defender / enable premiere and adobe CC through it.

My PC is strong enough for the CC applications, and I never had any issue with them while they are running, but I am noticing that everytime there is an update I am facing a new issue right afterwards.

Any idea what I can do? I was working on a project I need to export ASAP!

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IanB_360

Community Manager

Hi @Ultimadiac

and welcome to the Premiere Pro Forum community. Thank you for taking your time to report a problem. The team just needs a little more information to begin troubleshooting. The link here How to Report a Problem , has steps to providing more information about your bug that can help us identify the issue.
Here to help.

Ian

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FulStak Videditr

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Greetings Adobe Community,

Affecting multiple machine builds, the latest Windows update 24H2 is not allowing mission critical Adobe Apps to load, such as Premiere Pro and Media Encoder. Unless IT rolls back 24H2 across the Enterprise for an entire department, we have to roll back previous versions of various Adobe apps to avoid the app loading conflicts.

A screenshot is attached as an example for Media Encoder.

Windows Build causing issue - 2025-08 Cumulative Update for Windows 11 Version 24H2 for x64-based Systems (KB5063878) (26100.4946)

Error message produced - 0xc0000142

Temporary fix - Roll back versions of conflicting Adobe apps (or roll back Windows 24H2 if not on Enterprise system).

Example versions that bypass the Windows 24H2 conflict:

Media Encoder 25.2 - two versions back

Premiere Pro 25.2.3 - two versions back

After Effects 25.2.2 - four versions back!

Audition 25.2 - one version back

Photoshop 26.10 - lastest version, no roll back required

This is also the same Windows update that is reported to cause SSDs and HHDs to disappear (not physically, of course) with particular brand names much more affected.

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Charlie24960422cez9

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PP wont open. give me error code : (0xc0000142)

tos-82

Participating Frequently

I have this also this error.

Lightroom classic works fine, but not Premiere (25.3) or after effects.

I tried remove AE, Media encoder and Premiere, and re-installed them from cloud desktop. Nothing

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UltimadiacAuthor

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I was in hurry when I wrote the post and I think I didn't phrase that line correctly. You can uninstall any widnows update that was done recently, just type "uninstall updates" on the search bar and you can see each update with its date and time.

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UltimadiacAuthor

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I ended up reverting to an older version of Premiere and Encoder. This helped me finish my job, but still for some reason Premiere doesn't send projects properly to Encoder so I had to export through Premiere itself.

But yeah, as for the error 0xc0000142, only reverting to older versions of the adobe products helped me with that.

MyerPj

Community Expert

* Made sure windows is up to date.

* Reverted to an older version of windows.

What version of Windows are you using? How did you 'revert'?

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FulStak Videditr

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Good day Adobe Community,

To avoid this error, we are simply rolling back to the previous versions of Premiere Pro, Media Encoder, After Effects and Audition.

This error occurs when we attempt to load any of these apps of the latest updates through normal means, such as a desktop icon, etc. If we attempt to load these apps via CC hub, nothing happens, not even an error message shows.

Since rolling back fixes everything and there is no mission critical functions that are needed in the latest updates for us, we will simply wait it out before updating again.

Attached is an example of the error message.

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FulStak Videditr

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Good day Adobe Community,

After waiting a few weeks, I reinstalled the newest builds and the error messages are gone and the apps are loading as normal. One of my coworkers, she also had the exact same thing happen (same PC specs) and had to revert to the previous builds, but appears that the apps are loading normal with the latest builds.

Thank you for the fix!

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manoj_7925

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