>>Fred,
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>>>I really don't know where MSVCRT.DLL comes from, if it's part of the OS or not. All I know is FOXTOOLS.FLL shows it needs it if you use the Visual Studio tool DEPENDS.EXE on it. Certainly a better error message could be provided than what you get when you have a "missing piece" of the Windows jig-saw puzzle!
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>>According to the knowledgebase it is a c++ runtime library used for programs or DLL written in Visual C++ 4.2.
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>>Walter,
>
>I knew what it was, I just have no clue as to where it comes from. There are also usually many different versions of this file:
>
>MSVCRT.DLL
>MSVCRT10.DLL
>MSVCRT20.DLL
>MSVCRT40.DLL
>etc.
>

Fred, these aren't versions; they actually implement different sections of the runtime environment referenced by the C++ compiler.

>I also notice I have several different versions (date/size different) of these files on my system in various folders. Welcome to DLL HELL!