In the early 2000s there was this website called dll-files.com or something like that, and every time that error popped up (which happened a lot in the 90s and 2000s), you'd go to that website, download the missing file, and 99% of the time it would fix the problem. These days I'd advise against obtaining random DLL files from the internet but back then it was like magic.

[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Or you'd get lucky and some other program you installed happens to have the right dependencies. Just copy them to the application install dir or to C:\windows\win32\ and off you go.

[–] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 1 points 3 days ago

I remember...

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

On Windows people should only be downloading software from the Windows repo and using Winget to install it.