Microsoft KB Archive/164932

= WordPad Crashes with Wrong Version of MFC42U.DLL =

Article ID: 164932

Article Last Modified on 11/1/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 Developer Edition
 * Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q164932



SYMPTOMS
After you install certain products on a Windows NT 4.0 platform, you may receive the following access violation error when you run WordPad:

Unhandled exception in Wordpad.exe RICHED32.DLL: 0XC0000005: Access Violation.

An excerpt from an example of the Dr. Watson log (DRWTSN32.LOG) generated is below:

  Microsoft (R) Windows NT (TM) Version 4.00 DrWtsn32 Copyright (C) 1985-1996 Microsoft Corp. All rights reserved.Application exception occurred: App: exe\wordpad.dbg (pid=308) When: 1/27/1997 @ 8:57:34.118 Exception number: c0000005 (access violation)



CAUSE
This problem has been seen on Windows NT 4.0 systems using applications such as Microsoft Visual C++ 4.2 Enterprise version or third-party applications which supply their own version of the file Mfc42u.dll.



RESOLUTION
To correct this problem, expand the file MFC42U.DL_ from the original Windows NT 4.0 CD-ROM into the \System32 directory as Mfc42u.dll.

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