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More info?)
DirectX is not my area of expertise, so I am going to assume that the reason
you installed DirectX Eradicator was so you could uninstall DirectX before
doing a re-install. If true, have you considered trying to download/install
DirectX - even with the error messages you are seeing?
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/directx/default.aspx
Also, there is a diagnostic that will check/validate files like ddraw.dll.
You can download a trial version and see if you can provide us with more
information after running it. As you may know, sometimes these trial
versions have limited ability to fix the problems it finds. I.E., they like
to tease us to get out the ol' credit card. Can you blame them?
Anyway, you can download PC Bug Doctor at:
http://www.all-day-pa.com/
Good luck.
"Jennifer" <Jennifer@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:21F6C101-9252-44A0-9FE5-D041120733CA@microsoft.com...
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> "Michael T" wrote:
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>> Then we need more information Jennifer.
>>
>> What error message(s) are you getting when you try to install the 'risky'
>> DirectX Eradicator?
>>
>> Which DLL are you trying to re-register?
>>
>> When you downloaded (and extracted) the zip file did you carefully read
>> the
>> Readme.txt file and follow the instructions carefully for YOUR operating
>> system?
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>> "Jennifer" <Jennifer@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:BCDD1826-81F0-481A-8C4F-1576B0240A65@microsoft.com...
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>> >> Jennifer" <Jennifer@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> >> news:B91ADE27-F84C-4864-BDEC-24C53D4A5009@microsoft.com...
>> >> > I'm having trouble installing DirectX Eradicator and was wondering
>> >> > how
>> >> > you
>> >> > would re-register dlls.
>> >>
>> >> Well I did what you told me but it just said the specified module
>> >> could
>> >> not be found
>> >>
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> It says..."The application has failed to start because DSOUND.dll was not
> found. RE-installing the application may fix this problem." It says the
> same
> thing for DDRAW.dll. and for nview.dll it says "Error loading nview.dll.
> The
> specified module could not be found and all this happened after the
> installation rebooted my comp.
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