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Photoshop.exe - Entry Point Not Found (MSVCP80.dll)?


Neogen10

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Hey guys, new to the board here and pretty much at the end of my rope.

Starting maybe 2 days ago I began getting quite a strange message when I tried to open Photoshop CS3.

I'd send a jpeg of the window but with photoshop down i'll settle for just typing this crap out:

Photoshop.exe - Entry Point Not Found
The Procedure entry point ?replace@?$basic_string@DU$char_traits@D@std@@V?$allocator@D@2@@std@@qaeaav12@IIPBD@Z could not be located in the dynamic link library MSVCP80.dll

Now, that's a mouthful! Fortunately i'm at least computer literate enough to dig around on google.

After doing that, I came up with nothing. I found a replacement for the DLL that it's having trouble with, but that did nothing.

I then tried out a program called Registrybooster, which found quite a few problems with my registry but failed to correct whatever is causing this problem.

So I tried to backtrack a little bit and see if anything I had done since the last time the program worked (wednesday the prior week) had broken it. I had shut off some startup programs so i figured maybe that had something to do with it. Unfortunately undoing those changes had absolutely no effect at all.

I then tried out doing a repair install, which did nothing. After this, I did an uninstall and reinstall and... nothing.

Some extra info: I run Windows XP home edition on this PC and have it updated to SP3.

I've had photoshop on it for about a year with no problems.

Hopefully someone can help me here. Almost every thread I located with similar problems via google either went unanswered or the answers given didn't actually help me out.

Someone save me!
 
I found a replacement for the DLL that it's having trouble with, but that did nothing.

That's because you got the wrong version.

I then tried out a program called Registrybooster, which found quite a few problems with my registry but failed to correct whatever is causing this problem.

Never use any kind of so called registry program, they do often more harm than that they cure.

Hopefully someone can help me here.

Yes, update your OS, it's 8 years old. You can't get this kind of DLL error in Vista or Windows 7 because of Winsxs, which keeps mutiple copies of a DLL with the same names separated if the versions differ.
 

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