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re: Dll hell seems to be cause by installing tweakUI Friday, June 6, 2003 at 12:27 pm Posted by JmC (14166 messages posted) I've read your other post also Jay. It's not TweakUI that caused your problems. I would say your system is infected and regardless of any onboard AV program, run an online Virus scan! JmC 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? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Dll hell seems to be cause by installing tweakUI Friday, June 6, 2003 at 12:30 pm 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? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Dll hell seems to be cause by installing tweakUI Friday, June 6, 2003 at 1:58 pm 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? [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum