Hi David.

First off, blame the people that wrote the installer, there is no excuse for
this not working correctly, especially on NT.

you could try to manually do what the installer does for updating system
files.

In the registry there is a key called
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce. To
open the registry, Start->Run->"Regedit".

If you create a new string value under this key, call it what ever amuses
you, and place the command:

C:\WINNT\System32\xcopy.exe C:\msvcrt.dll C:\WINNT\System32\msvcrt.dll /Y

as its value. (replace C:\msvcrt.dll with the source file name)

Then when you reboot the machine it will execute the commands in the run
once key before the system gets running enough to be locking system files.
It will automatically remove the key.

Good luck.
Ash

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: pic microcontroller discussion list
> [mailto:PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU]On Behalf Of David Huisman
> Sent: Friday, 2 November 2001 8:21 AM
> To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject: [OT]: Windows NT - changing files in use
>
>
> 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.
>

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