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This was a fresh installation of the software and VirtualBox gives me this error message after starting a virtual machine I created:

Failed to open a session for the virtual machine PinkiePie.

The virtual machine 'PinkiePie' has terminated unexpectedly during startup with exit code 1 (0x1). More details may be available in 'C:\Users\Kobe\VirtualBox VMs\PinkiePie\Logs\VBoxHardening.log'.

Result Code: E_FAIL (0x80004005)
Component: MachineWrap
Interface: IMachine {f30138d4-e5ea-4b3a-8858-a059de4c93fd}

I tried uninstalling it, installed older builds of it, downloaded certain dlls some forums suggested but to no avail.

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In your VM's folder, look for 'VM_NAME.vbox-prev' file, make a copy, and rename the copy to "VM_NAME.vbox"

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  • It still displays the same error message. Mar 24, 2016 at 11:07
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    By any chance, do you have Avira anti-virus running? Try to launch your VM after stopping it if so
    – SΛLVΘ
    Mar 24, 2016 at 11:22
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    Its still the same, I'm afraid. Also I've noticed on the said log 1038.1f78: supR3HardenedScreenImage/Imports: cache hit (Unknown Status 22900 (0x5974)) on \Device\HarddiskVolume2\Windows\System32\user32.dll [lacks WinVerifyTrust] Most the lines in the log has that "[lacks WinVerifyTrust]" and I'm wondering what this means? Should I repair/replace my system files or something? Mar 24, 2016 at 11:35
  • Have you tried running VirtualBox as administrator? Next step might be uninstalling Avira
    – SΛLVΘ
    Mar 24, 2016 at 12:18
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Try freeing up memory by closing some applications, it worked for me without the need to stop anti-virus software or run VirtualBox as Administrator.

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Try reinstalling or updating VirtualBox - I saw the following towards the end of VBoxHardening.log

supR3HardenedMonitor_LdrLoadDll: returns rcNt=0xc0000190 'C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VirtualBox.dll'

Looks like VirtualBox.dll corrupted possibly?

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    this was it for me; probably after the same windows update that caused it for you!
    – wal
    Dec 19, 2017 at 6:27
  • Yeah I first noticed it pretty recently after that big update to Windows 10 in the last month or so - not sure why it would have stomped on VirtualBox but anyway.
    – tschumann
    Dec 21, 2017 at 10:16
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Windows 7 Starter Edition: it only runs three applications at once

You could be running into this limit. The Start Edition has some other pretty strict limitations on it.

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