<http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;326922>;
"The shared CRT DLL has been distributed by Microsoft in the
past as a shared system component. This may cause problems when
you run applications that are linked to a different version of
the CRT on computers that do not have the correct versions of
the CRT DLL installed. This is commonly referred to as the "DLL
Conflict" problem.
To address this issue, the CRT DLL is no longer considered a
system file, therefore, distribute the CRT DLL with any
application that relies on it. Because it is no longer a system
component, install it in your applications Program Files
directory with other application-specific code. This prevents
your application from using other versions of the CRT library
that may be installed on the system paths."
As stated above since the file MSVCR71.DLL is no longer considered a system
file copying the file to the applications folder(s) still presents a problem:
there
are still many versions of the file of which the files timestamp can't be used
as an accurate verification of the version. In this case its best to copy the
same file with the same timestamp to each apps directory once to ensure that
they all get the same file.
Marc Sims
Data Technician I
Prince George's Community College
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/30/06 2:36 PM >>>
On Wed, 30 Aug 2006, Marc Sims wrote:
> Older vrsions of Office 97 and lower required that this file
> be placed within other application folder locations but After
> Office 2000 this changed to C:\Windows\System32 as the
> default and master location and is as such. Microsoft finally
> did this to avoid the phenomena known to programmers as "DLL
> Hell" which is a weird phenonmena that causes the system and
> applications to go haywire as a result of having too many
> different versions of the file copied or installed to many
> different locations on a Windows PC.
Actually MS now recommends the opposite. MS no longer considers
the CRT library files as "system" files. Look at my previous
post on this thread with the MSKB reference on this issue.
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