I am glad I do not have to be a mechanic to enjoy driving a motor vehicle
... but it seems I need to be a computer engineer to "drive" my PC.

It seems every time I want to run a new program that I am forced to research
the inner workings of Windows to get the application running.

This time I am wanting to run a piece of software that uses MSVDRT.DLL.

The version in my winnt\system32 directory is 6.0. The program requires
version 6.1 to run. The program writers have supplied version 6.1 but I
cannot copy it to the system directory.

At first I tried to simply copy the file but was denied access due to the
file being in use.

I then re-ran the latest service pack 6 for NT4 hoping it would update the
msvcrt.dll to a later version. (but it did not)

Next I went to the Microsoft support site and downloaded a program called
"inuse.exe".
I tried this several times and it kept reporting that the full pathname must
be used, I played around with various options and combinations of paths and
directories.
ie. inuse c:\msvcrt.dll c:\winnt\system32\msvcrt.dll,  c:\inuse.exe
c:\msvcrt.dll .....

I then searched for other options and found ms.exe, but this is only
available from the NT resource kit CD (which I do not have).

Next, I contacted the code supplier again and was informed to download IE6.
I did this but still no go...

I then thought I could boot to floppy and copy file without Windows running,
but the NTFS files system is not visible when I do this.

Would someone please advise how I can update this file without buying a new
PC, reformatting my hard drive, reinstalling Windows or using another
operating system BEFORE I loose the rest of my hair.

Thanks

Regards

David Huisman

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