Using RainMeter on Windows 2k Professional
Posted: August 23rd, 2010, 8:51 pm
Hello,
I've been following Rainmeter for some time now, and I utilize it on almost all of the PCs I have under my scope. The exceptions are the W2k machines that I have. Jokes aside about the age of the OS, I'm running into heavy problems getting Rainmeter functional on the boxes despite the fact that I know it should work. A fundamental problem is that there is little to no documentation on W2K installations. The best I could find is that it requires the GDIPLUS.DLL on these forums, which is also subsequently listed in the original Rainmeter manual.
I understand that I am missing files; but what I don't understand is where these files are to be placed or where they are to be obtained from. Some files, like GDIPLUS, are easily acquirable from MS while others are seemingly much more difficult to find because they are part of something else that I am not familiar with.
Here are the issues I am receiving. On a new installation of W2K and running Rainmeter 1.3 r515 (32b), I get the following:
Pre-GDIPLUS.DLL added to rainmeter.exe folder.
The dynamic link library gdipluss.dll could not be found in the specified path C:\Program Files\Rainmeter;.;C:\WINNT\system32;C:\WINNT\system;C:\WINNT;C:Program Files\Mozilla Firefox;C:\WINNT\system32;C:\WINNT;C:\System32\Wbem;C:\Program Files\Intel\DMIX.
Post-GDIPLUS.DLL added to rainmeter.exe folder.
The dynamic link library MSVCP90.dll could not be found in the specified path C:\Program Files\Rainmeter;.;C:\WINNT\system32;C:\WINNT\system;C:\WINNT;C:Program Files\Mozilla Firefox;C:\WINNT\system32;C:\WINNT;C:\System32\Wbem;C:\Program Files\Intel\DMIX.
At this point, I've found the MSVCP90.DLL and I've placed it into C:\WINNT\system32. The issue is that it tells me that it still isn't found. What am I missing in order to make this function?
I've been following Rainmeter for some time now, and I utilize it on almost all of the PCs I have under my scope. The exceptions are the W2k machines that I have. Jokes aside about the age of the OS, I'm running into heavy problems getting Rainmeter functional on the boxes despite the fact that I know it should work. A fundamental problem is that there is little to no documentation on W2K installations. The best I could find is that it requires the GDIPLUS.DLL on these forums, which is also subsequently listed in the original Rainmeter manual.
I understand that I am missing files; but what I don't understand is where these files are to be placed or where they are to be obtained from. Some files, like GDIPLUS, are easily acquirable from MS while others are seemingly much more difficult to find because they are part of something else that I am not familiar with.
Here are the issues I am receiving. On a new installation of W2K and running Rainmeter 1.3 r515 (32b), I get the following:
Pre-GDIPLUS.DLL added to rainmeter.exe folder.
The dynamic link library gdipluss.dll could not be found in the specified path C:\Program Files\Rainmeter;.;C:\WINNT\system32;C:\WINNT\system;C:\WINNT;C:Program Files\Mozilla Firefox;C:\WINNT\system32;C:\WINNT;C:\System32\Wbem;C:\Program Files\Intel\DMIX.
Post-GDIPLUS.DLL added to rainmeter.exe folder.
The dynamic link library MSVCP90.dll could not be found in the specified path C:\Program Files\Rainmeter;.;C:\WINNT\system32;C:\WINNT\system;C:\WINNT;C:Program Files\Mozilla Firefox;C:\WINNT\system32;C:\WINNT;C:\System32\Wbem;C:\Program Files\Intel\DMIX.
At this point, I've found the MSVCP90.DLL and I've placed it into C:\WINNT\system32. The issue is that it tells me that it still isn't found. What am I missing in order to make this function?