Seems an appropriate Forum to field

[gargouille]

Seems an appropriate Forum to field my question?

Scenario: I'm trying to run memtest on an old Win95 machine and encounter the error [[A required .DLL file, MFC42.dll, was not found]]

So, I did an experiment: found the file on a Win98 computer 5 feet away and "sneaker netted" it to the Win95 machine.
No problem, drop it in the system folder, and use regsvr32 to show it to Win95. Another error message...not fully remembered but included "....last address".

Q: Is there a work-around for this?

Would the newer runtime library (which I'm assuming memtest was written with) mess with Win95?

My understanding of this, as you can see, is only enough to be dangerous.

 

[gargouille]

Mebbe wrong forum!

 

[BoulderBum]

You might try an operating system forum, or maybe the hardware one.

I think memtest may also be on a bootdisk. Try getting a Win 95 bootdisk from

http://www.bootdisk.com

, then seeing if memtest is a part of the included system files.

 

[gargouille]

Yes, as I said in my post, I already have memtest and have put it on a boot disc, and was getting the error message when I tried to run it.
It is not in memtest's files, rather expects it to be in the OS...suspect this is an issue of the runtime library that's loaded...the software expects another.
I'm not a programmer, of course, but I was able to deduce that it was written in Visual C++: hence, my post saying I had maybe chosen the wrong forum.
Thanks for your response.

 

[BoulderBum]

I was trying to suggest that a different version of memtest (not win98) might be on a win95 boot disk, though I really don't know.

Good luck!

 

[gargouille]

I do appreciate your effort to help.
Have downloaded another memory tester and run it successfully.