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I just don’t know what to do
After some switching around of my SATA drives and returning the hardware back to it’s original locations AE said it needed to be activited. After I reactivated I began getting this DLL error
“an attempt was made to load a program with an incorrect format.”
Several sites reference the error for several different programs but nothing that helped me. Most were proceeded with other errors or had more information for some sort of clue of what was causing the error. Not mine though.
All my other programs work fine. I did repair. I did a complete reinstall.
What else should I try?
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[Tyler Paul] “What else should I try? “
A Mac?
LOL, had to. Sorry. Ahem.
**I am in no way stating a preference for a platform but merely making a joke. Federal DIC. Equal housing lender. Void where prohibited**
Chris Smith
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Hello,
This is un-usual if you are on a Microsoft WIndows XP system try Tune up demo. It will look and find/fix any DLL errors etc.
Thanks,
Leo
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hi,
If the Tune up suggestion did not work, then your next best bet is to look for a Restore Point before the moving of your harddrives. This usually owrks.
If there is no such Restore Point, then you could try this shot in the dark. It is a shot in the dark because the error message usually comes from the OS itself (XP) rather than the application. But it could be that the shifting of your SATA drives has left some “Hidden and Ghosted Generic Volumes” behind that is confusing the application.
Try at your own risk, though I often do this myself as a clean up process, and have not encountered any problems all this time. As long the “light grey” volumes are uninstalled by following the procedure below, there should be no problems, i.e. DO NOT uninstall the “dark grey” volumes –
1. CREATE A NEW ENVIRONMENT VARIABLE
Control Panel > Advance > Environment Variables > System Variable > New.
Variable Name: devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices
Variable value: 1
OK your way out.
A value of 0 will reset it to be non effective.2. VIEWING AND UNINSTALLING HIDDEN AND GHOSTED DEVICES
– Make sure all the harddrives you want to work with/use are all connected and working
– Then in Device Manager > View > enable “show hidden devices”
– Scroll down Device Manager to “Storage Volumes” and you will see a list of Generic Volumes which are either dark grey or light grey. The dark grey ones are the volumes that are currently connected and working. The light grey ones are currently not connected, but are there because you did not Uninstall them before disconnecting previously. Usually these would be external USB drives, flash/thumbdrives, etc…but would also likely include the SATA drives in the new configuration you had before reverting back to original status.
– Right-click each ‘light grey’ Generic Volume, and Uninstall it.
– When all the ‘light grey’ Volumes are uninstalled, try booting AE and hopefully the error message you have been encountering will not be there.You can also clean up/do the same if there are any things listed under a big Yellow ?.
Thomas Leong
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Also do check your disks for flaws. Some of those problems may be related to some invalid references lingering in the MFT.
Mylenium
[Pour Myl
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[Chris Smith] “A Mac?
LOL, had to. Sorry. Ahem.”
Chris, while you are making such wonderful suggestions, would you mind buying me one, too? ;o)
Mylenium
[Pour Myl
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This is not going good…. nope
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MS install clean up utiltiy fixed everything.
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It took me on the run around.
I used a bunch of the tools on tuneup. Fixed a lot of errors but not mine. That included a disk check. I did clean up a couple hidden devices. Didn’t fix the problem.
I’ve always shut off system restore in the past but apparently I forgot too. I restored to a couple days ago. This is where the new errors popped up. Trying to uninstall came up with a windows validation patch error. To click the installer resulted in an hour glass for a few minutes then nothing. I reinstalled and reran the tests on the tuneup utility. Fixed alot of stuff but not my problem. The patch lead me to the install cleanup utility. Trying to run it resulted in a script failure. I looked up the error and got the script installer from microsoft. Ran the install cleanup utility and removed After Effects. I got a fault error and it crashed. I ran it again, got the error. I ran it a few more times as quick as I could until suddenly AE had been removed and the AE installer worked. I celebrated prematurly.
That damned error popped up again.
I’m thinking I’ll just have to reformat if there aren’t anymore ideas. It would’ve been quicker.
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Hello,
Yes seems a strange problem a clean install unsually fixs mist problems anyway. I did a clean install recently as the timeline was just crashing with Adobe Premiere pro 2.0 and was very un-stable. I did a re-install after re-installing XP then it was fine.
Thanks,
Leo
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I used a program called dependency walker that makes a tree of all the dlls that get loaded and searches errors. It found nothing out of the norm.
fresh install it is
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