MSVBVM50.DLL not found (Vista)

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MSVBVM50.DLL not found (Vista)

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So I loaded Vista today (god, I hate it), and after installing XYplorer, I received an error dialog indicating that it could not locate the following component:

MSVBVM50.DLL

I reinstalled as "vista" suggested but no XYplorer. I don't expect it to run in Vista yet since it's only been released for a week. But Vista Explorer is the worst god-awful crap I've ever suffered. (Okay, well, WinFax was pretty bad.)
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Post by j_c_hallgren »

I'm a tiny bit surprised to read this posting from you, as XY has been running almost perfect (except for a small context menu issue) on Vista from what I read in posts by others here...but you've run into probably THE most common issue with XY (and some other similar app's)...see another posting (with solution) about this same thing here:
http://www.xyplorer.com/xyfc/viewtopic. ... 9&start=30

BTW, from the counts shown, it appears this is my 1000th posting here! :oops: :roll: :o :wink: 8) :shock: :D Yikes! I guess I need to get out of the house more often!
Still spending WAY TOO much time here! But it's such a pleasure helping XY be a treasure!
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j_c_hallgren wrote: BTW, from the counts shown, it appears this is my 1000th posting here! :oops: :roll: :o :wink: 8) :shock: :D Yikes! I guess I need to get out of the house more often!
Congrats :) And yes, you need to get out more then, lol
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Re: MSVBVM50.DLL not found (Vista)

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So they don't ship it anymore, tz tz tz... Well, this is the official (doesn't it look very official?) download URL for it:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.as ... us;Q180071

Some blood brothers here in the forum are using XY on Vista already. So you all had to go and get msvbvm50.dll manually???

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j_c_hallgren wrote:BTW, from the counts shown, it appears this is my 1000th posting here! :oops: :roll: :o :wink: 8) :shock: :D Yikes! I guess I need to get out of the house more often!
Yep, I'd suggest a little fresh air break at 1 KP (1 kiloposting = 1024 postings).

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j_c_hallgren wrote:BTW, from the counts shown, it appears this is my 1000th posting here! :oops: :roll: :o :wink: 8) :shock: :D Yikes! I guess I need to get out of the house more often!
You definitely earned a time out (it will probably even boost your creativity). Not only for your non-stop stream of valuable and elaborate postings, but also for your additions and typo hunting in the wiki: Thanks, man!!! :D

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Re: MSVBVM50.DLL not found (Vista)

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admin wrote:Some blood brothers here in the forum are using XY on Vista already. So you all had to go and get msvbvm50.dll manually???
Hi Don;

No I just continued using the same install folder from Win2K. I also copied the dll file into the XY folder. :)

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Post by zridling »

Thanks for the link. I've seen it here, but had forgot about it, I'm sorry. A 2-second search would have prevented it.

All I can say is that Vista's 'Explorer' is the most inefficient/godawful monster I've come across. Microsoft should just give Don a few €billion for a license to use XYplorer. Just don't sell out. (But if they did that, who design their ugly software!)
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Re: MSVBVM50.DLL not found (Vista)

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admin wrote:Some blood brothers here in the forum are using XY on Vista already. So you all had to go and get msvbvm50.dll manually???
Yep. No biggie, though.
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Re: MSVBVM50.DLL not found (Vista)

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JustinF wrote:
admin wrote:Some blood brothers here in the forum are using XY on Vista already. So you all had to go and get msvbvm50.dll manually???
Yep. No biggie, though.
Ok, thanks. I added the info to the ReadmeXY.txt and to support.htm.

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