Please someone help, I keep getting an error message when I try to launch an appl.

Please could someone help me with this problem. Recently in my acer aspire laptop, I started experiencing this error message when I try to launch the acer empowerment application. The error is as follows; (The applicatio failed to initialise properly (0xc000007b). Click OK to terminate the application). And the application would not start. Please could someone help on what to do to stop this problem. Thanks a lot. Anticipating a response soon. Kaycee