Microsoft KB Archive/189472

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Article ID: 189472

Article Last Modified on 5/13/2003



APPLIES TO

  • Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 Learning Edition
  • Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Learning Edition
  • Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 Professional Edition
  • Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Professional Edition
  • Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 Enterprise Edition
  • Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Enterprise Edition



This article was previously published under Q189472

SYMPTOMS

Trying to run Visual Basic results in the following error message:

Unexpected Error; Quitting

This error occurs after the Visual Basic splash screen appears.

CAUSE

There are two known casues for this error:

  1. Visual Basic cannot find one of the following two files needed to run:

    MSO97RT.DLL
    MRT7ENU.DLL

  2. You are trying to run Visual Basic from a network "Administrator" setup.


RESOLUTION

For the first situation, the two files listed in the "Cause" section can be located on the Visual Basic installation CD in the \OS\System directory.

These two files need to be copied into one of the following directories in order to resolve the issue:

C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\VBA

-or-

C:\Program Files\Common Files\MsApps\VBA


For the second situation, install Visual Basic locally. The Visual Basic product is not designed to run in a shared mode, so network Administrtator setups are unsupported. Please see the "References" section for more information.

STATUS

Microsoft is researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

REFERENCES

For additional information, click the article numbers below to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

171813 FIX: IPF in MSO97RT.DLL When Starting Visual Basic


170680 XL7: MS Query Doesn't Work After Installing Visual Basic 5.0


142517 INFO: VB Doesn't Support Administrator or Network Installation


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