title: mongod.exe has stopped working error
body: <p>I installed mongoDB 3.2.4. I am on a Windows 7 64-bit system.</p>
  
  <p>After installing mongoDB, I specified dbpath as "c:\data" and also set the environment variable. Now, whenever I try to execute <code>mongod/mongo</code>, I get a popup that says "mongod.exe has stopped working" or "mongo.exe has stopped working", like shown in the screenshot below:</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/GZB9J.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
  
  <p>This is what I found in the "view problem details" of the error dialogue box:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Problem signature:   Problem Event Name:  APPCRASH   Application
    Name: mongod.exe   Application Version:   0.0.0.0   Application
    Timestamp:    56de0c29   Fault Module Name:   mongod.exe   Fault Module
    Version:  0.0.0.0   Fault Module Timestamp:   56de0c29   Exception
    Code: c000001d   Exception Offset:    0000000000c04713   OS
    Version:  6.1.7600.2.0.0.256.1   Locale ID:   1033   Additional
    Information 1:    7c1e   Additional Information
    2:    7c1ee2ba56224cd9352de03840feb4d9   Additional Information 3:    c5d2<br>
    Additional Information 4: c5d247ac4cbf220bef4183808293e174</p>
    
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