Re: ODBC connections crashing

Thanks I will do that.

"Jeff Johnson [MVP: VB]" wrote:

>
> "Andre Gibson" <AndreGibson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:2F423642-8539-4D09-A4FD-F14B6CEDF4A5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> > I cleaned up my pc the other day by uninstalling a few shareware programs
> > I
> > no longer needed. I think this is how I created my problem.
> >
> > Now when I try to connect directly to Sql server or my DB2 dbs or even
> > access db I get a DSN error. I checked my ODBC connections panel (running
> > xp
> > pro) and found that all of the .dll driver files were missing.
> >
> > I did a file search and learned that they still existed in my system32
> > folder. This lead me to believe that they needed to be registered. I used
> > regsvr32 to register the files and got this error:
> >
> > "C:\windows\system32\sqlsrv32.dll was loaded, but the DllRegisterServer
> > entry point was not found. This file can not be registered."
> >
> > Can anyone tell me what this means and how I can fix it? I really don't
> > want
> > to reinstall windows. Please advise.
>
> I would say forget about trying to use regsvr32. Those DLLs are most likely
> standard DLLs and not ActiveX DLLs, so they don't need to be registered. The
> system does apparently need to be made aware of them somehow, but you'll
> have to go another route. I would recommend asking in a more data-oriented
> group. Start with microsoft.public.data.odbc. You might also want to ask in
> a general Windows group.
>
>
>
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