Winzip Win10 Issue

[Jayhawker32]

As of the 5th of May Winzip won't open and the faulting module is d3d9.dll. I don't understand why Directx is causing Winzip to crash but I can't fix it.

Please help
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[BFG-9000]

This may be similar to trying to get a Windows 10 incompatible game working. The program will preferentially use any d3d9.dll in its own program directory ahead of the one in C:Windows\System32 (sometimes that one is even hidden from the program!).

Try first COPYing (not moving) the d3d9.dll from C:Windows\System32 into the same folder as the Winzip executable and if that doesn't work, you can search for and find ~half a dozen other d3d9.dll files to try in the C:\Windows folder before you start trying ones from Windows 7 or 8.

Note that some of these will be x86 even on a 64-bit system so they shouldn't work as your screenshot suggests your version of Winzip is 64-bit. If it works keep in mind Microsoft should eventually patch things to work so you might be left with an outdated dll in the folder.

 

[Jayhawker32]

This may be similar to trying to get a Windows 10 incompatible game working. The program will preferentially use any d3d9.dll in its own program directory ahead of the one in C:Windows\System32 (sometimes that one is even hidden from the program!).

Try first COPYing (not moving) the d3d9.dll from C:Windows\System32 into the same folder as the Winzip executable and if that doesn't work, you can search for and find ~half a dozen other d3d9.dll files to try in the C:\Windows folder before you start trying ones from Windows 7 or 8.

Note that some of these will be x86 even on a 64-bit system so they shouldn't work as your screenshot suggests your version of Winzip is 64-bit. If it works keep in mind Microsoft should eventually patch things to work so you might be left with an outdated dll in the folder.

Awesome thank you. I copied it in there and that fixed it immediately.