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  Re: Error 0xc000007b
  By: Bf2k+ to MRO on Fri Aug 29 2025 09:15 pm

 >   Re: Error 0xc000007b
 >   By: MRO to Bf2k+ on Fri Aug 29 2025 09:51 pm
 >
 >  > well do what rob says and collect the error msgs in the console.
 >
 > I'd love to.  But if I understand you correctly, the 'console' is the
 > Synchronet Control panel and it never loads. The errors pops up upon
 > execution and immediately shuts down.
 >
 > I could load Process Monitor, run sbbs and then capture that PM log and send
 > that.  Would that help?

I think I had a similar issue while I was installing SBBS on a Windows 11
Insider Preview on a virtual machine.

I did a couple of experiments, but what I found out was I was installing the
wrong version of the VC redist files; you should download and install the x86
instead of the x64 ones (but in my case, I just installed both; they installed
together nicely and I didn't have problems with my SBBS executables.)

When I was still had the x64 version installed, I wondered why the dll files
are not found even though I saw the .dll files in C:\Windows\System32; then I
tried copying the said DLL files in the C:\Sbbs\Exec directory, and an error
similar to that occurred, regardless of the SBBS executable I run
(sbbsctrl.exe, sbbs.exe, jsexec.exe).

After installing the x86 version, and deleting the .dll files in C:\Sbbs\Exec,
it started working.

Could you confirm that you have only installed the dll files via the Microsoft
installer, and not copied arbitrarily the .dll files to your SBBS installation
directories?

Hope this helps.

- Wang Bu
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