I met such problem. Visual Studio 2008 clearly said: problem was caused by libtiff.dll. It cannot be loaded for some reasom, caused by its manifest (as a matter of fact, this dll has no manifest at all). I fixed it, when I had removed libtiff.dll from my project (but simultaneously I lost ability to open compressed TIFFs!). I recompiled aforementioned dll, but problem still remains. Interesting, that at my own machine I have no such error. Three others comps refused to load my prog. Attention!!! Here http://www.error-repair-tools.com/ppc/error.php?t=0xc0150002 one wise boy wrote, that this error was caused by problem with registry and offers repair tool. I have a solid guess, that this "repair tool" will install some malicious soft at your comp.