Reply To: screwmez app

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Posted by wheeltapper on 10/09/2016 17:17:54:

What I find strange about this is , apart from me and one other, no one else has posted that it doesn't work for them,

Perhaps most people already have MSVBVM50.dll – it's fairly ubiquitous. If peoples' recent Windows installations are upgrades, it would have been carried over from the Windows previous version even if a clean install didn't include it (and I wouldn't expect it to).

Moreover, these are the Visual Basic runtime files. What's supposed to happen is that, if someone writes and distributes an application in Visual Basic he includes the runtime file as part of the installation. He might check to see whether they already exist on the target machine or even specifically ask the end-user but those files are part of the program and the application installation is incomplete without them.

For this reason, many people have the runtime on their machine – even with later versions of Windows – without ever consciously putting them there themselves.

The strange thing here, if there is one, is that the program (Screwmez) doesn't include the runtime – with at least an option to install it – in the package. It's incomplete without it (not that it would be the first time).

FWIW, this machine running Win-8.1 has a copy (dated 2004). It started as a clean install of Win-8 then upgraded to Win-8.1 neither of which is likely to have installed the VB runtime. Somewhere along the line, something that I installed provided a copy.