RE: The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000022) -- cause and cure

[snip] However, I *had* installed those DLLs by using Cygwin's unzip to unpack a ZIP file. I then noticed that if I simply did chmod +x *.dll on those DLLs, the problem went away. I get a similar problem on XP, but with wget. Again a chmod +x takes care of it, which is good, since XP Home

The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000022) -- cause and cure

I think this is unrelated to previous messages on this list with a similar subject. Instead, it pertains to a problem that I encountered and solved myself; I thought it might benefit others to hear about it, so here it is. The symptom is that I was trying to start a non-Cygwin program that I'd