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Stop code 0x00000005: INVALID_PROCESS_ATTACH_ATTEMPT

Windows Error Code Lookup: Decode Windows error codes: Win32, HRESULT (0x80070005), NTSTATUS, Windows Update, msiexec and blue-screen stop codes, with what to check next.

Paste the number from an error dialog, event log, script or setup log: 0x80070005, 80070005, -2147024891, 1603, 0xC0000005, a stop code like 0x7E, a name like E_ACCESSDENIED, or a few words. You get every way Windows could mean that number (an HRESULT often wraps a Win32 error, so 0x80070005 is "Access is denied" too), its parts decoded, and what to check for the common ones. Names and messages come from the Windows SDK headers and Windows' own message tables; see Microsoft's System Error Codes and [MS-ERREF] for the full references.

Try: 0x80070005, 1603, 0xC0000005, 0x800F081F, 0x8024402C, 0x7E, access denied

0x00000005 = 5

Stop code 0x00000005 (blue screen)

INVALID_PROCESS_ATTACH_ATTEMPT

Open the dump in C:\Windows\Minidump with WinDbg and run !analyze -v to see which driver was involved. Microsoft's bug check reference explains the four parameters for each code.

Win32 error 5 (0x5)

ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED

Access is denied.

The account doesn't have permission. Check NTFS and share permissions, whether the program needs to run elevated, whether the file is read-only or in use by antivirus, and, for a service or task, which account it runs as.

As an HRESULT (HRESULT_FROM_WIN32): 0x80070005E_ACCESSDENIED: General access denied error