re: Dll hell seems to be cause by installing tweakUI Friday, June 6, 2003 at 12:30 pm Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by karen (4 messages posted) http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=190643 On Friday, June 6, 2003 at 11:24 am, jay wrote: >It's a nightmare---there are so many programs and programletts that refuse to work >because someone stomped on their dlls. >QUOTE: from a windows tech discussion program: >Hank's headache was caused by a common DLL demon: a rogue install program that doesn't >check versions before it copies DLLs into the system directory. Had that install >program compared the existing version of MFC42.dll with the installation version, >it would have skipped loading MFC42 and not caused his problem. I call this Type >I, or replacing a DLL with a previous version, DLL Hell. This is a very common problem >for Windows 9x users, especially those who download free software or copy programs >from friends. Modern professional software doesn't cause this problem because it >always checks versions before stomping on DLLs. > > >It looks like TweakUI did this to me. Someone please defend it if you think it isn't >true. And how do I uninstall TWeak? Written in response to: Dll hell seems to be cause by installing tweakUI (jay: Friday, June 6, 2003 at 11:24 am) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Dll hell seems to be cause by installing tweakUI (jay: Fri, Jun 6, 2003, 11:24 am) re: Dll hell seems to be cause by installing tweakUI (JmC: Fri, Jun 6, 2003, 12:27 pm) re: Dll hell seems to be cause by installing tweakUI (karen: Fri, Jun 6, 2003, 12:30 pm) re: Dll hell seems to be cause by installing tweakUI (Paul D: Fri, Jun 6, 2003, 1:58 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum