Mart
Fri Apr 23 03:05:43 CDT 2004
Copy of my previous post to your later (second) thread:-
OK, rant done, now - Why is it missing?
Probably because it is NOT part of WinMe - nor Win98 for that matter! - and
is NOT included with the installation disks.
It's part of other applications e.g. Works Suite 2001, Encarta, etc., so I
would suggest you try searching on the MS Knowledge Base for mfc42u to see
which applications MAY apply to your PC, then try re-installing it/them.
Mart
<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> It was a typo i did mean mfc42u.dll. I don't know what
> caused the problem.
>
> I tried to use system restore t fix the problems, but
> would get a message after rebooting that the system could
> not be restored to the date I requested (didn't matter
> which date I would select.)
>
> The following is what the exact problems were and what was
> done to fix them:
>
> 1:wordpad.exe disappeared. That has been corrected by
> getting information as to which cab file contained
> wordpad.exe.
> 2: I could no longer download anything from Microsoft ie.
> windows update or support sites. The browser would
> close. I could browse the internet and download files
> from non microsoft site. I tried to reinstall the
> internet explorer from the folder where the install files
> were stored, but that didn't work. Finally I got to a MS
> site where I managed to download the Internet Explorer
> and all is fixed
>
> To the best of my knowledge I made no changes. All of a
> sudden the problems started. Is there a way to stop this
> message from appearing? How do I get the programs looking
> to open wordpad.exe to find where I have reinstalled
> wordpad.exe? I can right click and use the open with
> selection and wordpad.exe opens.
>
> In both of the obove instances I was receiving the
> MFC42U.dll error message. Additionally I was getting an
> HTML viewer error message when trying to go to the windows
> update site. This error message has not reappeared. I
> get the MFC42U.dll missing message everytime a file looks
> to automatically open wordpad.exe.
>
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Assuming you mean mfc42u.dll rather than mdc42u.dll Win
> Me doesn't use
> >mfc42u.dll but instead uses mfc42.dll. mfc42u.dll was
> probably installed as
> >part of some other package, the problem though is to try
> and determine which
> >package that might have been and then either repair or
> reinstall it..
> >
> >One possible solution is to use system restore to
> rollback your system to
> >before you started having problems with this file
> provided that that was not
> >too long ago. Alternatively what changes did you make to
> your system just
> >prior to this problem beginning? Have you tried
> reversing those changes?
> >--
> >Mike Maltby MS-MVP
> >mcmaltby@hotmail.com
> >
> >
> >John Cronin <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> >
> >> IF I left click on an the icon for a word pad document
> or
> >> if I right click on the icon and select open I get a
> >> message telling me that MDC42U.dll is missing. If I
> right
> >> click on the icon and select open with wordpad the
> >> document opens. How can this annoyance be fixed. When
> I
> >> performa search this file cannot be found.
> >
> >
> >.
> >