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Asked: 2026-05-16T00:10:59+00:00

Hello everybody let me give you the background first: I’m working on a project

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Hello everybody let me give you the background first:
I’m working on a project that is build with vs2005 on a winxp sp3 with the windows sdk 7.0 and most important the hotfix, that is targeted to work from win xp (sp 0) -> windows 7.

part of the project is querying the snapshots and play with the a bit.
On my development environment everything is ok,
on windows 7 everything is ok (Kinda ok but it’s not the point).

On clean xp machines (sp3 & 2) I get:
“The procedure entry point CreateVssBackupComponentsInternal could not be located in the dynamic link library VSSAPI.DLL” when I start the application – Even before I get to the part in the code that is related to the VSSAPI…

1) how can it raise the message before I get to the invocation?
2) Does anyone has an idea why it doesn’t work?

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  1. Editorial Team

    1) Because the DLL is loaded when your application starts, not when it’s first needed. Look up delay-loading or the LoadLibrary system call if you want to load it later, or even conditionally.

    2) I don’t know, but someone asked the same question before: Why does my Volume Shadow Copy Service requester fail: cannot find CreateVssBackupComponentsInternal

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