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MSVCRT.dll error...not cool =(
Posted by christianb Hi Kle, First off, while Lotus was trying to helpful DLL hell has absolutely nothing to do with firewalls or a lack thereof. I wouldn't recommend installing a firewall unless you want to add additional complexity, instabability, and reduce the over all performance of your system. My guess is AIM and IEXPLORE were both designed for newer versions of MSVCRT.DLL and you installed some older piece of software that overwrote a more recent copy. You aren't going to be able to overwrite that file outside of DOS or possibly safe mode, however doing that manually is not a necessary job anyways. Just run an update package and let it overwrite the file while windows is still loading. Please download and install these updated Visual C++ Service Pack 6 runtimes (MSVCRT stands for MS Visual C++ Runtimes by the way): http://download.microsoft.com/download/vc60pro/Update/1/W9XNT4/EN-US/VC6RedistSetup_enu.exe Keep that file and you may want to re-install it periodically after installing other titles. It will always be safe to re-install this package even when it's out of date, because when it's out of date it won't overwrite anything, unlike whatever the program was that hosed your MSVCRT.dll. By the way it should be noted that newer and far superior operating systems like Windows 2000 (best choice), Windows XP, and 2003 all have some built in file protection and will restore most system files if a program overwrites one of them with an outdated version. I would recommend Windows 2000, because XP and 2003 are still too new and are still loaded with bugs, though both are far more stable than Windows 98 or 98SE. Cheers, Christian Blackburn |