Problems installing Visual Basic

[Rob Farmer]

Just tried to install my Visual Basic disk and got the message unable to find shell.dll, I also got the same when tried again installing Visual Studio. I ran a registry cleaner a couple of weeks ago and suspect it may have cleared it out. does anybody know how I can reregister the fiile in the registry? Shell.dll is in my windows system folder.

 

[Clive]

Which O/S ?

Which version of VB are you trying to install ?

I've searched the registry on my XP SP2 and there is no mention of shell.dll

 

[Clive]

From a quick google it appears that shell.dll does not need registering i.e. regsvr32 does not work with it.

Are you using Zone Alarm ? - if so see the final post on this http://forums.binarydreams.us/archive/index.php/t-3357.html

 

[Alte Wolf]

Just tried to install my Visual Basic disk and got the message unable to find shell.dll, I also got the same when tried again installing Visual Studio. I ran a registry cleaner a couple of weeks ago and suspect it may have cleared it out. does anybody know how I can reregister the fiile in the registry? Shell.dll is in my windows system folder.

Had this one whilst trying to install Borland C++ some time ago.

Watch the install and see where VB is 'looking' for the file, then copy to that directory.

From memory with Borland C++ it was I think C/windows/system32

 

[Mick_rw]

Re: Re: Problems installing Visual Basic

Had this one whilst trying to install Borland C++ some time ago.

Watch the install and see where VB is 'looking' for the file, then copy to that directory.

From memory with Borland C++ it was I think C/windows/system32

I would agree with that, I have Visual Studio and Shell.dll appears in both the System and system32 directories

 

[Rob Farmer]

Thanks guys.

I copied shell.dll into my system32 folder and all is now well. Can't imagine why it was deleted in the first place though.