-----Original Message----- From: Darrel Johansen To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU Date: Monday, 13 October 1997 0:19 Subject: Re: I forgot something >A newer version comes with MPLAB (dated 28 Feb 95). What the message is >saying is that some other application has already loaded BWCC.DLL and >when MPLAB starts up, it recognizes it. Search your PC hard disk for >all instances of this DLL and replace them with the one that came with >MPLAB (or the very latest one you find on your system). The newer >versions of the DLL will work with programs that used older versions. >You can simply get rid of all versions of BWCC.DLL and leave the latest >one in your \WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory. All the applications that need >it should be able to find it there. As a quick PS to that, try paring down the number of paths that get searched (the path variable in autoexec) Windows has a search order that goes something like - current, windows\system, root, path variables (I probably missed some or screwed up the order) My point is, the more directories in path, the more likely an unwanted exe/dll will get found. It also slows things down searching all those paths. Shortcut files can accomplish the same results on an app by app basis, by setting the command and current dir parameters correctly. MikeS