I installed the anniversary edition on a Dell laptop running windows 2000 and it worked great for 3 days but now when the program tries to open a window opens that tells me Ad-Aware.exe-Unable to locate DLL. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling, but no luck. Does anyone know of a remedy?

Hi,

Ad-Aware only works correctly on Windows 2000 SP4 Update Rollup 1. Do you have this installed?

Casey

Thanks for your suggestion, but it is installed. The Ad-Adware worked fine for 3 days and then I got this error and it will not load the program.

Thanks, Everett

Hi, can you please tell us exactly which DLL you are missing.

Thanks.

The message then states the following: The dynamic link library MSVCP90.dll could not be found in the specific path C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Adware;C:\WINNT\system32;C\Winnt\system and on and on

The program worked for at least 3 days after installation and then stopped and gave the error above. I then uinstalled and downloaded again, but still get the same error.

Thanks, Everett

It looks like an error with the Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable.

Please try downloading and installing this (you may be prompted to uninstall it first, that's ok - go ahead and do that) - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...99-220b62a191ee

If that still doesn't work please try the newer service pack - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...4d-389c36f85647

Hope that helps,

GoddersUK

I have had this error a few times. I uninstalled the program, cleaned the registry and re-installed the program. This has worked for me. I don't know why Ad-Aware does not find the DLL file as I specificall checked to ensure it was located in the proper areas. It was.