I purchased Acer Travelmate 5612 about 3 years ago and it was loaded with Acer empowerment
Technology; it worked alright until the last few months. since then any time I turn on my computer I
get the message "The application failed to initialize properly (0c0000135). Click on OK to terminate
the aplication". I find also that my computer battery runs down almost immediately if I do not plug
in the computer to an external electric power source. Not being a computer buff, I find it very
annoying when I cannot use the computer away from the wall plug.
Stephen Osei
(saosei at yahoo dot com)