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Having a very weird problem with VirtualBox...

Upon installing it on my computer (Lenovo T530 laptop, Corei5, 8GB memory), I was initially able to run it, and create a VM.

Once the VM was created, VirtualBox crashed almost instantly. It now no longer starts at all - just crashes on startup.

I have attempted to reinstall, but after the first try, it crashed on startup again.

I attempted removing the user profile files (completely deleted the ".VirtualBox" folder from "\users\me\.virtualbox" and removed the VM's folder). The first time I did this, I managed to load it up, but the exact same thing happened as soon as I tried to create a new VM.

Now it wont start no matter what files I delete.

Has anyone seen this behavior before?

Here is a paste from my application event log:

Faulting application name: VirtualBox.exe, version: 4.2.4.0, time stamp: 0x508ad068
Faulting module name: QtCoreVBox4.dll, version: 4.7.3.0, time stamp: 0x50085658
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x000fee33
Faulting process id: 0xf20
Faulting application start time: 0x01cdc3fe208490a8
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VirtualBox.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\QtCoreVBox4.dll
Report Id: 5e820a52-2ff1-11e2-8f1f-0021ccb74723

Worry not, I have figured this one out.

Cant believe I didnt spot it before posting.

I'm running Win7 32bit - I am so used to running 64bit that I didnt even bother to think about it. The VM I was trying to create was Windows Server 2012, which is obviously 64bit only.

Going to have to update my OS on this lappy I think!!

Who the hell uses 32bit anyway these days? There is no point.