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Started by Luckless October 05, 2003 07:47 PM

5 comments, last by Luckless 20 years, 6 months ago

Luckless

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October 05, 2003 07:47 PM

Ok, slightly off topic, but thought I would give it a try here,... anyway, I haven''t had MSN Messenger to work for some time, (I can see what everyone else is doing, but I just could never send stuff out to the server my self) Now, I think I solved that problem, but my Oleaut32.Dll file is not working. I downloaded it off the net somewhere, forget the addy right now, and did what they told me to, but I got some sort of error, saying windows was using it or something, can couldn''t overwrite,... (I''m on win95 by the way,... hopefully not for much longer) Thanks for any help here.

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RuneLancer

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October 05, 2003 07:57 PM

Try booting in DOS and copying the file from there. Windows won''t allow you to overwrite files it uses when running so the only way to do that (that I know of) in Win95 is to simply not load up Windows.

ALternatively, if you have an other OS in there than DOS you can boot into, so long as the partition your Windows folder is in is accessible you can overwrite it. The idea here is to simply not have Windows 95 running when you try to overwrite the DLL.

To be on the safe side, make a backup of that DLL though. You never know, the one you''re getting could be faulty or you might have even more problems.

Odoacer

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October 05, 2003 11:19 PM

You could also try booting into Safe mode and overwriting it from there

Luckless

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October 06, 2003 07:54 AM

I guess I''ll have to try to remember how to boot to safe mode, as that will be easier for me to figer out than the dos commands to copy and paste,... Wow, 8 years late on computers, and I can''t even remember the basics of dos,...

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Spudder

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October 06, 2003 11:15 AM

Usually you have some options when you first boot up your comp which might allow you to change the boot mode, another way that i found to get windows to start in safe mode - this is far from the best way of doing things is to start booting up your computer then just after windows has started loading hit the reset button. Hopefully when windows starts to boot up afterwards you''ll get some message about windows not finished laoding the last time and is starting up in safe mode