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Windows Forum / Windows XP / Basics / June 2008GDIplus.dll location
Does someone know where the GDIPLUS.DLL file usually is located? Today, I found it in My Documents. How and when it got there I have no idea... Any suggestion will be appreciated.  SignatureIlya Zeldes Fort Myers, Florida > Does someone know where the GDIPLUS.DLL file usually is located? Today, I > found it in My Documents. How and when it got there I have no idea... [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > Ilya Zeldes > Fort Myers, Florida Hey IIya, GDIPLUS.DLL is a library used in Microsoft Visual Studio (which should be in your "Program Files" folder). If you are a developer and have it installed, there is the reason why. GDI is an acronym for Graphics Display Interface, Which you can read about here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms536380.aspx As for it being moved there I wouldn't have a clue. Visual Studio may have done this or you may want to check for malicious software or it could come down to someone moving it manually. Regards, Nathan F. Nathan, thanks for your help! I looked up the article you suggested and then run a search on my HD. I was surprised to find four gdiplus.dll files. They all different in size - 1600KB, 1601KB, 1604KB, and 1607KB. Two are located in two MSOCache CABs and two in My Pictures and My Documents folders. The MS Visual Studio is empty... Recently, I was moving and deleting a lot of photos and documents. It's possible that I inadvertently moved this gdiplus file once. But twice? Now what? Should I leave them where they are or move them somewhere else (in MS Visual Studio folder?)... Also, I found a RegCure tool which claims to fix gdiplus.dll and Registry. Should I use it? I'm not a developer, I'm a plain end user... Thanks again for your assistance. Ilya On Jun 28, 1:59 pm, "ilyaz" <ilya...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Does someone know where the GDIPLUS.DLL file usually is located? Today, I > found it in My Documents. How and when it got there I have no idea... [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > Ilya Zeldes > Fort Myers, Florida Hey IIya, GDIPLUS.DLL is a library used in Microsoft Visual Studio (which should be in your "Program Files" folder). If you are a developer and have it installed, there is the reason why. GDI is an acronym for Graphics Display Interface, Which you can read about here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms536380.aspx As for it being moved there I wouldn't have a clue. Visual Studio may have done this or you may want to check for malicious software or it could come down to someone moving it manually. Regards, Nathan F. > I looked up the article you suggested and then run a > search on my HD. I was surprised to find four gdiplus.dll files. They all [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > file once. But twice? Now what? Should I leave them where they are or move > them somewhere else (in MS Visual Studio folder?)... Simple test: (if you do not want to search Registry): 1. Write down full filepaths of all four GDIPLUS.DLL files. 2. Rename three of these with prefix x as XGDIPLUS.DLL (via CMD REName if needed.) Keep a record of this and reboot. 3. Run as normal. If you get an error message that GDIPLUS.DLL cannot be found, you know the correctly named GDIPLUS.DLL is either invalid or in the wrong place. Rename it. 4. Correct the name of one of the XGDIPLUS.DLL files, keep a written record, reboot and return to #3. SignatureDon Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada) Don, thanks for your suggestion. I may try it. However, for now, I have no problem running this machine and decided to leave these files where they are... Thanks again for your help. Ilya >> I looked up the article you suggested and then run a >> search on my HD. I was surprised to find four gdiplus.dll files. They all [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > 4. Correct the name of one of the XGDIPLUS.DLL files, keep > a written record, reboot and return to #3. |
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