Posts Tagged ‘dll’

Use your remote from iTunes even while minimized

Makes your mul­ti­me­dia key­board but­tons work with iTu­nes when the pro­gram isn’t currently in focus, or is minimised.

It is com­mon to find that, when it’s not maxi­mi­sed, iTu­nes will not recog­nise your media or gaming key­board short­cuts as com­mands to play, pause, skip song, etc. This sim­ple plug-in fixes the pro­blem in most cases. It saves you having to bring iTu­nes up on screen each time you want to use the keys.

To use this plu­gin, simply copy the mmKeys.dll file into your plu­gins folder.

• For XP Users, this is found in “C:\Program Files\iTunes\Plug-ins”
• For Vista Users, it’s “C:\Users\your_username\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\iTunes\iTunes Plug-ins” and you may have to show hid­den files (or use the search) in order to see the App­Data fol­der. One com­men­ter also repor­ted that it works when put in “C:\Users\your_username\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\iTunes\iTunes Plug-ins”.
• For Win­dows 7 Users: follow Vista ins­truc­tions above.

You also need to res­tart iTu­nes to load the dll.

You can down­load the file here.

•   Mul­ti­me­dia Key­board DLL (44.0 KiB, 68 hits)

Faulting application WINWORD.EXE faulting module mso.dll

If that title didn’t get your atten­tion I don’t know what will.  That is part of the error log I used today to repair a Mic­ro­soft Word 2007 error.

Whe­ne­ver Word was clo­sed, or you attemp­ted to go into Word options, the <sarcasm>ultra helpful</sarcasm> error mes­sage would appear “Mic­ro­soft Office Word stop­ped wor­king” and then close down.  I hope they paid that guy by the character.

Also, when run­ning a find in Excel, that same error hap­pe­ned.  I went to the handy appli­ca­tion logs and found that error.  The reso­lu­tion for this is really easy, if you look.  The faul­ting module is the root cause of this issue MSO.DLL.  To fix this you will want to go to C:\program Files\common file\Microsoft Shared\Office12 on a wor­king com­pu­ter and copy the MSO.DLL file to a thumb disk or to a net­work share.  Then on the offen­ding com­pu­ter, copy that file down to the same path.  Issue resol­ved.  No muss no fuss.  No Registry entries modi­fi­ca­tions like some peo­ple suggested.

I do recom­mend making sure that the ver­sion and upda­tes are the same bet­ween the two com­pu­ters.  One more note.  If you are using Office 2003, the direc­tory will be Office11 ins­tead of 12.

Vista Update Error 0×80070424 — Fix

I am not sure how many Vista users there are out there, but I have it ins­ta­lled on my work lap­top. So far I have not been unhappy with the OS, but there are some things I am not all that exci­ted about. But, the point of this post has noting to do with that.

Yes­ter­day after­noon I reboo­ted my machine and had a secu­rity alert that my auto­ma­tic update was not ena­bled. I was get­ting the follo­wing error: Error 0×80070424. I was searching around the net for a fix and kept being told to just re-register the wuauserv.dll. While that see­med like it wor­ked, the next time I ran an update the error retur­ned. But with some per­se­ve­rance I fount the follo­wing fix that wor­ked like a charm:

Start-run-type the follo­wing com­mand and press enter
%SYSTEMROOT%\SYSTEM32\REGSVR32.EXE %SYSTEMROOT%\SYSTEM32\WUAUENG.DLL

Or try this method:
1. Click on Start, and then click Run.
2. Type cmd in the Open box to get a DOS prompt.
3. Type net stop wuau­serv and press Enter.
4.Now delete (or put in recycle bin) the con­tents of
C:\WINDOWS\SoftwareDistribution (but not the Soft­wa­re­Dis­tri­bu­tion fol­der)
(doesn’t mat­ter if some will not go)
5. Type net start wuau­serv at the com­mand prompt, and
press Enter.
6. Now try Win­dows Update again.

- Diego