Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/04/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You heard of the term "DLL Hell" from a few years back? It's when Windows or other software put in different versions of DLL library files and even though in theory they suppose to work together, often they don't. DLL Hell is when you have versions of DLL from different sources and some programs will not work. "Side-by-side" is Microsoft brilliant way of solving this problem - by introducing worse problems! I'm afraid that there is little chance of recovery besides total system reload, but may be some other luggers know a solution. Good luck. On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 6:55 PM, Tina Manley <images at comporium.net> wrote: > LUG: > > This is driving me crazy. Yesterday an automatic Microsoft update rendered > my computer totally worthless. It went back to the original configuration > of Windows 7 with none of my screen savers, no programs loaded - just a > bare-bones version of a new Windows 7. I used Restore to go back before > the > update. All seemed good. Screensavers are there, programs listed, > documents and photos where they should be; HOWEVER, nothing works. When I > click on any program at all I get this message "The application has failed > to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect. Please see > the application event log or use the command-line sxstrace.exe tool for > more > detail." That is totally Greek to me and I've put it up on several Windows > and Microsoft forums and nobody else seems to know what it means. I've > come > to the LUG expertise as a last resort. I do (did) have everything backed > up > with Acronis, but that is one of the programs that refuses to run, even > from > the restore CD. Before I totally tear all of my hair out, is there anybody > out there who has the slightest idea how I can fix this? > > The day when all of my computer programs can be cloud-based will be a great > day (maybe). > > TIA > > Tina > > -- > Tina Manley, ASMP > www.tinamanley.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- // richard <http://www.imagecraft.com/> // icc blog: <http://imagecraft.com/blog/> // photo blog: <http://www.5pmlight.com> [ For technical support on ImageCraft products, please include all previous replies in your msgs. ]