Today when I install XAMPP (www.apachefriends.org), an error comes out “The application failed to initialize properly( 0xc0150002).Click on OK to terminate applicationâ€, I search the internet and found the method to resolve the problem, it is very easy, just download and install the Visual C redistributable: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=90&p=&SrcDisplayLang=en&SrcCategoryId=&SrcFamilyId=200b2fd9-ae1a-4a14-984d-389c36f85647&u=http%3a%2f%2fdownload.microsoft.com%2fdownload%2fe%2f1%2fc%2fe1c773de-73ba-494a-a5ba-f24906ecf088%2fvcredist_x86.exe
Notes:
First of all, make sure you installed all Windows XP
service packs.
Then, did you Install XAMPP in “\Program Files†?
It is more or less protected by the operating system, and
the directory name includes a space, which can be a
problem sometimes.
If so, uninstall, and install in \xampp
Google for “0xc0150002 apache†(without the quotes), there’s a lot of information about it on the web. You may have to install the Visual C redistributable also.