Can't open program

Intuit does not list Windows ME as one of the operating systems supported by version 2005.

I know, but I installed it last December and it's been okay 'til now.

Elaine

From Google:

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From my quick web search I found the following information on STLPORT_VC746.DLL: STLport is needed if you're running Microsoft Visual C++ (version 6 or .NET

7.0), because the STL implementation in VC++ 6 and VC++.Net is very old, pretty slow and has a number of known bugs.

QuickBooks or SDK is not the owner of this file but it is deployed by QBFC4_0 Installer exe.

Developer Support Engineer Intuit Developer Network

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I'd guess a re-install will replace the missing file. Presumably you can download it from here, but no guarantees:

I don't think that anything changed. I opened the program this morning as usual, turned off my computer when I went to lunch, then couldn't launch the program when I came back. I even restored the computer to the restore point that it made yesterday afternoon. I still get the same error message.

Thanks for the info, but I copied the STLPORT_VC746.DLL file from my other computer to this one and it didn't help.

Perhaps you are using the term "restore point" incorrectly, but what change did you make that would require a new restore point?

My computer automatically makes a restore point every once in a while. I'm not sure what the schedule is. It just happened to make one yesterday afternoon.

Is it possible this is related to the new cummulitive patches that Microsoft just released? (My understanding is Microsoft released a bunch of patches just two days prior to support evaporating.)

(I just heard about these patches, I run XP Pro and Windows ME on all my computers.)

One-in-a-million, but success might depend on the location to which you placed the DLL.

I over-wrote the old one so I know I placed it in the right folder.

I'm going to uninstall and re-install later today. If that doesn't work, I'm sunk.

Ah, but... The copy the program wants might be missing from where the program is looking. If, for example, you replaced the copy in your "My Pictures" folder, that wouldn't do any good at all.

Then there's the ultimate fall-back position. Forget all this computer stuff and open a pig farm.

Thanks, everyone for your input. I finally upgraded from ME to XP and that cured the problem. I guess I should have done that in the first place.

Elaine

Have you unregistered and then re-registered the dll? Sorry if it's teaching you to suck eggs, but it's always the obvious ones that get me :-)

Mike

You have to learn to read my posts carefully. There are times when my advice really is advice.

You're right, Alan. But someone (obviously a moron) told me that Windows ME and Windows 2000 were really the same... so he thought it would be all right to install QB 2005 on my ME computer.

Forgive them for they know not what they do. In any event, not only can you now use QB but have a much better operating system. Life just keeps getting better.

Windows ME was "supposed" to be the next step between Windows 95/98 and Windows XP. However it still used the Win 95 kernel, where XP is the next version after 2000 using the NT kernel. AND, ME is MUCH more unstable an operating system than even 95 was. Probably is the MOST unstable version of Windows ever released. I am currently using XP SP 2 after waiting 2 years while still using 2000.

So, Windows ME is NOT the same. Different core programming. Therefore, whoever told you they were the same doesn't know what they are talking about.