Hamond
03-02-2009, 10:50 AM
I recently installed an excel add-in that comes with a custom developed DLL for calculations, but every time I run the code from the add-in, it generates a run-time error 53: file not found zAz.dll.
The add-in works fine on my old PC which was I installed previously a few years ago, further investigation shows that the DLL file sits in my windows/system32 directory on my PC.
But when I try placing this file in the same location on my Laptop I am unable to load it in there. I’ve tried to register it manually based on storing it in another location using the regsvr32 command but I was unsuccessful with the message “the file was loaded but the DLL register server entry point was not found”
Is there anything I can do to get around registering the file in the windows/system32 folder to get it to work. Could I use code to open/reference/activate the file by placing it in another location (e.g. the folder where the addin is stored) before running the add-in? Or would I need the person who created the add-in to change the underlying code?
Hope someone can help.
Thanks,
Hamond
The add-in works fine on my old PC which was I installed previously a few years ago, further investigation shows that the DLL file sits in my windows/system32 directory on my PC.
But when I try placing this file in the same location on my Laptop I am unable to load it in there. I’ve tried to register it manually based on storing it in another location using the regsvr32 command but I was unsuccessful with the message “the file was loaded but the DLL register server entry point was not found”
Is there anything I can do to get around registering the file in the windows/system32 folder to get it to work. Could I use code to open/reference/activate the file by placing it in another location (e.g. the folder where the addin is stored) before running the add-in? Or would I need the person who created the add-in to change the underlying code?
Hope someone can help.
Thanks,
Hamond