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Pateman
Pateman

Reputation: 2757

Why does the Delphi XE2 IDE crash in msimg32.dll?

After installation of the Update 3 for Delphi XE2 I get the following error and the IDE does not want to start.

The error

I tried installing the standard Delphi XE2 with Update 1 and the problem persists. Do you have any idea what is causing this?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1122

Answers (2)

Mehmet Fide
Mehmet Fide

Reputation: 1795

Just delete msimg32.dll in delphi_install_dir\Embarcadero\RAD Studio\9.0\bin folder. This file shouldn't be there if you are doing everything correctly.

Upvotes: 0

Ken White
Ken White

Reputation: 125620

It looks like the file got corrupted somehow. I just checked my Win 7 64-bit Pro, and there are two copies of msimg32.dll found, 1 each in System32 and SysWOW64, both dated 7/13/2009 and version 6.1.7600.16385. So it appears they haven't been updated recently.

The actual error message you're getting is related to access denied, and the second one is DLL initialization failed, which is probably a result of the first one; the IDE isn't loading because the DLL can't be loaded.

My only suggestions are: 1) open a support case with Embarcadero (as an installation related problem, the support is free), or 2) reinstall Delphi from scratch, run it once to create registry entries, and then reinstall Update 3. I don't think anyone here is going to be much help; I'm not finding anything in searches related to Update 3 and this dll, so it seems to be just you having the issue.

Upvotes: 1

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