Missing DLL [SOLVED]

[RampantAndroid]

I have been running Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 for some time - and all was great...but I needed to reinstall VS2005 for my senior project and to avoid any conflicts, I uninstalled VS2008 and .NET 3.5 Beta...and somehow in this process, issues regarding MSVCR71.dll arose. Programs such as VMWare server and games like Hitman: Blood Money now no longer start, the error being that it cannot find MSVCR71.dll - I checked, it is still in my System32 folder....but nothing.

So I reinstalled .net 3.5 in hopes that would fix it - when that didn't, I reinstalled VS2008, but still no luck. I know the normal solution would be to install .net 1.1 again, but this is Vista, so that is not a solution.

Any ideas on what I can do here? Might installed VS2005 have caused this?

Thanks.

OS: Vista Home Premium 64 bit

 

[FreakyGuy]

Try puttting MSVCR71.dll in your C:\Windows\SysWOW64 folder

 

[Markbnj]

That's part of the Visual C runtime for... I think... VC6.0, but it may be a little earier or later. Anyway, if you Google the name of the DLL you'll find a lot of advice on how to restore it.

 

[Nothinman]

Programs such as VMWare server and games like Hitman: Blood Money now no longer start, the error being that it cannot find MSVCR71.dll - I checked, it is still in my System32 folder....but nothing.

You probably found the 64-bit version, 32-bit processes need the 32-bit version.

 

[RampantAndroid]

FreakyGuy was dead on - putting it in the SysWOW64 folder made everything happy once again.

Thanks for the help, I greatly appreciate all the input!