Half a croissant, on a plate, with a sign in front of it saying '50c'
h a l f b a k e r y
Make mine a double.

idea: add, search, annotate, link, view, overview, recent, by name, best, random

meta: news, help, about, links, report a problem

account: Browse anonymously, or get an account and write.

User:
Pass:
Login
Create account.


              Please log in.
If you're not logged in, you can see what this page looks like, but you will not be able to add anything.

Missing DLL Search
For those annoying popups: "Missing DLL file:...".
  (+2)
(+2) 		  [vote for,
against]


This is a feature that you would have thought (with all the consistent popups in Windows ME and previous) Mr. Gates and Co. would have integrated into Windows.

When one of the annoying "DLL file... .DLL not found" type errors comes up a button links the error to a searchable database hosted at Microsoft, and searchs for the missing DLL file.

PunkiPrince, Jul 28 2003


Short name, e.g., Bob's Coffee

Destination URL. E.g., http://www.coffee.com/

Description (displayed with the short name and URL.)







       My parents' PC did that. But the DLL file wasn't missing, it was a corrupted support file that's custom-generated for the PC configuration.   

       The database is baked. At Microsoft's site, type your error, print the resulting pages, then contact the Geek Exchange to fix it for you.   

       Win XP pops up links for certain program errors, but not specifically for DLLs.
Amos Kito, Jul 28 2003
   

       You're having this trouble with XP?
bristolz, Jul 28 2003
   

       // The database is baked. // I'm suggesting more of a hidden database accesible by Windows itself and automatically retrive the missing .lib or .dll files rather than the knowlage base at Microsofts site.   

       // Win XP pops up links for certain program errors. // This just acesses articles on the aforementioned KB to help prevent problems. Theese popups only appear when you terminate a process or aplication, not when there is a missing file preventing an ap from running.
PunkiPrince, Jul 28 2003
   

       // bristolz // I have had very little trouble with this on WinXP but on my previous Win95 system. Win98 laptop and college Win2000 computers I get a lot of theese popups. I am thinking more of an integration of this system into future versions of Windows.
PunkiPrince, Jul 28 2003
   

       Yeah. XP has a mechanism that prevents 3rd party installers from replacing important libraries which is where 99% of those problems have come from. (Actually, XP doesn't outright "prevent" DLL tampering, rather it uses a recovery cache and immediately fixes itself if a critical DLL is tampered with during a application installation.) It's not infallible, and can be circumvented by explicitly altering the recovery cache, but I haven't seen the dread problem since I installed XP. Earlier versions of Windows was a DLL free-for-all.   

       An infuriating memory is that it was usually the cheap kids game installers that caused the most havoc. Kind of like having a 59¢ goldfish eat your $300 tropical fish.
bristolz, Jul 28 2003
   


 
back: main index
 business 
 computer 
 culture 
 fashion 
 food 
 halfbakery 
 home 
 other 
 product 
 public 
 science 
 sport 
 vehicle