{"id":2163,"date":"2008-03-23T08:56:33","date_gmt":"2008-03-23T08:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bargh.co.uk\/blog\/?p=24"},"modified":"2008-03-23T08:56:33","modified_gmt":"2008-03-23T08:56:33","slug":"error-loading-dll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/error-loading-dll\/","title":{"rendered":"error loading .dll – what it means"},"content":{"rendered":"

It appears to be a common problem but finding a solution can be hard. I’ve been getting an “error loading w0572d42.dll
\nThe specified module could not be found” message for about a year every time I restart my computer. At first I tried to find out what it was and couldn’t. So I clicked ok, the message went and the computer ran as normal, or at least I hoped it did.<\/p>\n

Today I had some free time so I looked a bit deeper and found an answer by Malke Routh, MS-MVP to a similar problem. His suggestion was to download a “program from Microsoft that will help you stop the error<\/strong> messages”<\/p>\n

I tried this option, not really understanding what I was doing but it worked. Here’s what I did.
\nStep 1<\/strong>
\nDownload the program AutoRuns for Windows v9.13 from here http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/sysinternals\/bb963902.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n

Step 2<\/strong>
\nClick on the autoruns.exe file (it’s safe)<\/p>\n

Step 3<\/strong>
\nA list of all the stuff that runs at start up will show. If you PC’s like mine there will be loads of stuff. Click the Everything tab at the top.<\/p>\n

Step 4<\/strong>
\nClick on the binocular icon (search) in the menu. And key in the name of the .dll file that’s causing the problem.<\/p>\n

Mine appeared on the list as “jvba05ee” and on the right “File not found: w0572d42.dll”<\/p>\n

Step 5<\/strong>
\nUntick the box to its left<\/p>\n

Step 6<\/strong>
\nRestart the computer<\/p>\n

Job’s a good un! I no longer get the message. While I was in the Autoruns system I also found several other File Not found entries so I unticked them too. You can delete entries but I’m not confident enough to do that yet!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It appears to be a common problem but finding a solution can be hard. I’ve been getting an “error loading w0572d42.dll The specified module could not be found” message for about a year every time I restart my computer. At first I tried to find out what it was and couldn’t. So I clicked ok, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1296],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-helping-hand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}