Unable to register DLL files

[AntunB]

ok i got win98se

and wen i try and install things sometimes i get an error saying:

unable to register .dll

y is this happening? and is there a way to fix it?


i think it could hav somethin to do with either:

visual basic 6
visual basic 6 Service Pack 5
MDAC 2.8

possibly 1 of these, because it was fine b4 i installed it


any ideas would be great

thanks

 

[Jontmke]

It also could be that your path environment got messed up too. the intaller is probably just calling regsvr32.exe without putting the full path. Like this:
regsvr32 urlmon.dll (which IE does when it installs)
So if your "path" does not include c:\windows\system than it will fail.
Open a DOS prompt and type path and see what it says. These are set in the autexec.bat file. Sometimes a software will add itself to the path and screw up the original. If there are more than one line for "path" make sure the additional lines all have %path% in them. That will include previous statements and not override them.
Here is mine from work as an example:
PATH C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND;C:\DOS;C:\NET;%path%
PATH C:\Novell\Client32;%PATH%
Notice the semicolons and the %path%.

Jon

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