Computer troubles

[AndrewK9]

Has anyone ever had this problem? I have PowerPoint but when I try and open it up I get a message that says it's unable to locate component and it fails to open because of some kind of file called MSVCR80 was not found. Anyone have this problem? What can I do?

 

[Cute Tink]

Sounds like a bad install or corrupted file. Try reading over this

 

[C-Man]

Here's what you do. Do a google search on MSVCR80.DLL. The first result should be a site called dll-files. Download the ZIP file there.
Unzip it into your C:\Windows\System32 directory.
Then go Start -> Run.
Type in "regsvr32 C:\Windows\System32\MSVCR80.DLL" without the quotes.
That should fix it right up.

 

[Qyöt27]

Alternately, just stash it in the same folder as the program you're trying to run, since .dlls work that way on Windows (it's how I overrode d3dx9_43.dll by replacing it with Wine's version to stop a game from crashing - just stuck it in the same folder as the game's .exe).

And shouldn't it come as part of one of the Redistributable packages in Microsoft's downloads area? I mean AFAIK, 'MSVCR' does stand for 'Microsoft Visual C Runtime'.