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re: Dll hell seems to be cause by installing tweakUI
Friday, June 6, 2003 at 1:58 pm
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Posted by Paul D (2162 messages posted)


TweakUI is a semi-official Microsoft product, and is one of the most widely used applications in the world. It is NOT responsible for your problem.

Paul D





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?


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Dll hell seems to be cause by installing tweakUI (jay: Friday, June 6, 2003 at 11:24 am)

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-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)
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