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Asked: 2026-06-04T13:10:12+00:00

I’ve been following theForger’s win32 API tutorial , and I decided to open the

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I’ve been following theForger’s win32 API tutorial, and I decided to open the menu_one.rc file to see its contents from within VS2010, and I got this error:

The error (imgur.com)

I’ve double-checked both locations and neither of the files actually exist. The only copies of rcdll.dll I have are located at: 

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\Bin\rcdll.dll and 
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\Bin\x64\rcdll.dll

I’ve tried doing a repair install of the Windows SDK, but that didn’t fix the problem. What should I do?

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  1. Editorial Team

    This thread mentions a registry issue:

    I had been able to reproduce the issue with my pc with Windows 7 SP1 64 bit and VS2010 Sp1 installed.

    What I had to is modify the following registry entries from

    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Microsoft SDKs\Windows]
"CurrentVersion"="7.0"
"CurrentInstallFolder"="C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft SDKs\\Windows\\v7.0\\"

    to

    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Microsoft SDKs\Windows]
"CurrentVersion"="7.0.30319"
"CurrentInstallFolder"="C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft SDKs\\Windows\\v7.0A\\"

    And there were 2 keys under

    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Microsoft SDKs\Windows]

    which are

    v7.0
v7.0A

    I deleted v7.0 along with all its subkeys. And the problem is solved.

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