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First post, by Ludomeister

Posted on 2003-12-31, 03:01

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Hope somebody can help me with a problem I've never encountered before: a number of .dll files failing to register when loading the application. Of course, I'm talking about VDMSound here. And yes, I have Administrative permission. Basically, I attemtp to install VDMSound 2.0.4, and everything goes okay until I start getting a bunch of notices that such-and-such .dll failed to register. Retrying gets nowhere. Rebooting and retrying gets nowhere.

Oh yes, I'm installing on WinXP Home edition, a 2 gig machine from Dell. I've successfully installed VDMSound on no less than 3 other machines (two Dell laptops running WinXP Home ed.) and my work machine running WinXP Pro. But no luck with my home machine ... aargh!

Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated!

Reply 1 of 8, by BlackRhino

Posted on 2004-01-06, 02:43

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http://sourceforge.net/projects/vdmsound/

Its hiding in there. do a search there. There are REG entries you can Download.

I just cant seem to find it atm...

Reply 2 of 8, by vladr

Posted on 2004-01-07, 04:52

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I still can't track down what application is causing REGSVR32/OLE to fail like this! Do you have any sort of antivirus or installation-related program on your system???

Reply 3 of 8, by DosFreak

Posted on 2004-01-07, 05:15

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I know that installshield has debugging capabilities that may help in this situation. Unfortunately Installshield is a pretty big download and I don't think there is a demo ver available. It COULD be a permissions problem (yes even if you are an administrator) If you know how to check permissions on registry keys then please do so. If you don't then we'll post instructions.

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Reply 4 of 8, by Snover

Posted on 2004-01-08, 01:41

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Registry permissions ... regedit, right-click the key, choose "Permissions..."

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Reply 5 of 8, by AJAJ

Posted on 2004-01-18, 13:20

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Still having this problem with 2.1.0.
Which keys should we be checking permssions for?

EDIT: Ah for all of them I see, well it still appears I have full permissions though.

Reply 6 of 8, by AJAJ

Posted on 2004-02-11, 16:58

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Did we give up on this?

Reply 7 of 8, by MiniMax

Posted on 2004-02-11, 17:19

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I don't know if it will show anything, but there are utilities that will monitor all changes to the registry. I think www.sysinternals.com has one.

Edit: Yep - http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/regmon.shtml

Perhaps by monitoring the registry while you install will show which key(s) that is causing the problem?
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Reply 8 of 8, by Guest

Posted on 2004-02-11, 17:33

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I ran a dependency check in an earlier thread. Nothing turned up. Essentially none of the dlls will register. Which is why its so weird.
The sysinternals app is a good idea though, I'll try it.

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