Why do applications "need to close"? What can I do about it?

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Why do applications "need to close"? What can I do about it?
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Generally this means the program has encountered an exception (this is an error that will make the program crash). What causes this error is dependent on the application, so it’s hard for us to tell what exactly is going wrong.

General solutions are reinstalling the program or deleting its temporary files (you cleanup utilities might not catch them). Perhaps it encounters an exception related to user account control, so try running the program as administrator (right-click, run as administrator). In some programs it is also caused by DEP (Data Execution Protection, a security system). This page explains how to disable it for your program.

There’s also the possibility that this program tries to write a file in a location it has no access to. Try to give the program you’re running write permissions (right-click, properties, security)

Also make sure you have installed the latest updates for Windows and that specific program.

by Simon Verbeke from http://superuser.com/questions/422078