Error: The ordinal 6880 could not be located in the DLL MFC42.DLL

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:confused: I know - this is an old problem but still, I can't overcome

 

it:

 

 

 

A year ago I have stared receiving the above application error when I

 

navigate to folders containing AVI files.

 

 

 

Dismissing the dialog is followed by an apparent Windows Explorer crash

 

and restart.

 

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The solutions I found in several sites are as follows:

 

 

 

The WinXP file version 6.02.4131.0 *has* the ordinal 6880. Therefore,

 

you've installed poor software installing an older version of that

 

system

 

file. If you're lucky, that copy was installed in a program folder and

 

can be deleted. When done, re-register the WinXP system file:

 

Start Run: regsvr32 %SystemRoot%\System32\MFC42.DLL

 

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Well, seems i'm not lucky after all..

 

i found a few MFC42.DLL files with above version.

 

I renamed 4-5 files that seemed potentially harmful (under

 

IBMTOOLS\DRIVERS\Utility, IBMTOOLS\DRIVERS\AUDIO, WINDOWS\SOFTWARE

 

DISTRIBUTION, WINDOWS\$NINSTALL) left the one under System32 and then

 

re-registered as above ---NADA!! same problem.

 

 

 

Is there any creative idea?

 

was it enough to rename or should i delete/remove from their

 

directories?

 

 

 

BTW, for the time being, i'm using another file manager instead of the

 

original Explorer (i use xplorer2) and it doesn't seem to care about

 

this bloody MFC42 problem...

 

 

 

Thanks

 

 

 

 

 

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ro-do