Jim,
The rules for loading a dll can follow the same rules as for an executable.
That is, it will search your PATH environment variable looking for the first
instance of a dll to load. You may have multiple copies of MSVCRT.DLL on
different paths on your disk. MSVCRT.DLL is a common Visual C/C++ runtime
that applications link with when they are built by the developer. This dll
is a freely re-distibutable library from Microsoft. Since it is required by
these third party applicattions, part of the application install is to
verify that this dll is copied to your system. Sometime applications may
copy to different places so you can end up with multiple copies in different
places. One may be old or corrupt, but is the first one found when running
your applications (because of the paths listed in your PATH environment), so
it gets loaded but crashes.
What you can do first is see how many copies you have and where they are,
open up "My Computer", right click on your C: drive and select "Search...".
In the search window, have it search for files and folder named
"MSVCRT.DLL". You can then examine your PATH environment variable. Click
"Start -> Run", and in the "Run" dialog box, enter "cmd" (no quotes) and hit
the Enter key. In the command window, type "path" (again, no quotes). This
will print the current path environment. This is a list of paths separated
by semi-colons (;). These are searched from the first to the last. Compare
this with the list of MSVCRT.DLL's you found with the search to see which
one will be encountered first. I would suspect that this one is causing your
problems. Try renaming this to something that will not be searched, like
"MSVCRT.SAVE" and try running your applications.
Russ Poffenberger
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> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jim
> Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 7:46 AM
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> Subject: [PCSOFT] MSVCRT.DLL error
>
> I really need some help. I am working on someone's Dell
> Desktop PC (w/ Windows Millenium) and they were getting an
> error once the desktop displayed after boot. It said
> "AOLwasher caused an error with MSVCRT.DLL".
> I uninstalled the AOL Washer and the error did not return,
> but when I try to install something, for instance Spyware
> Doctor, it immediately pops up the same error but this time
> referring to the Spyware Doctor setup file (sdsetup caused an
> error with MSVCRT.DLL). If I boot in safe mode, then I am
> able to successfully install Spyware Doctor.
> Steps I have taken so far are:
> Installed and executed Spyware Doctor and RegCure. Both found
> issues and resolved/removed.
> I successfully extracted the MSVCRT.DLL file from the Windows
> Me CD, but still get same error.
> I located an MSVCRT.DLL file for Millenium on the internet
> and replaced the existing file with this file. No change,
> still same error.
> I have found that many people have had this problem and their
> apparent solutions were the steps that I described above, but
> they are not working for me.
> One other step that I thought of taking was to do a
> repair/reinstall of Windows Millenium, but I'm not positive
> on whether or not that it will simply replace the Windows
> System Files as Win 95/98 does (procedures I have done
> successfully in the past with 95/98).
> Does anyone know if this is do-able with Millenium?
> Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
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