I am having the same problem running Money 2001 on
Windows XP.

See knowledge base article 305254, it may help you. I
will keep digging to find more info.

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a fix that is often the first thing that any support
person will have you try is to go to "RUN" and enter
msmoney.exe -s

this is some sort of database repair startup of Money.

give it a try.
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When attempting to start money 2003 receive the following
error message."This application has asked the Runtime to
terminate in an unusual way. Please contact the support
team for more information."

I have uninstalled and reinstalled the program. Same error
message.