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PROCESS_INITIALIZATION_FAILED
PROCESS_INITIALIZATION_FAILED is bug check 0x60. Microsoft's individual reference says the code appears very infrequently and does not publish parameter meanings or a named process whose failure can be inferred from the symbolic name.
Do not guess the failing process
The word PROCESS is not enough to conclude that a user application, service, or a specific Windows process caused the stop. Use the crash dump to see the initialization path, current thread, stack, and loaded modules. For this sparsely documented code, !analyze -v is the supported starting point.
Useful comparison data
- Record all four bug-check arguments even though Microsoft does not document their public semantics.
- Compare the exact Windows build and recent boot or system-component changes across repeated failures.
- Keep this code separate from the SESSION1-SESSION5 initialization family and from
CRITICAL_INITIALIZATION_FAILURE; those are distinct stop values with different published descriptions.
References
- Microsoft: Bug Check 0x60 PROCESS_INITIALIZATION_FAILED
- Microsoft: !analyze extension
- Microsoft: Bug check code reference
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