Hi, my name is Micheleh, and I was an unhappy camper! Seriously, my brand-new poser4 and propack crashed on it's second day with an mscvrt.dll error. Tech support was little help, so I did my own research. I thought I'd share. ;) Apparently the Propack ( and lots of other apps!) are picky about the version of msvcrt file. I assume this is the communication file for displays (CRT). A replacement (that works, I went through several!) can be found at http://firetop.com/dl/. In file manager, go to windows/system, rename the old file from msvcrt.dll to msvcrt.old, and dl the new version in its place. This is probably old news to most, but it's terrible to have a shiny new program crash for no apparent reason.(I have slaughtered innocent Mice for less!) Hope someone can use this.

Actually it is a Microsoft Visual C (++) Run Time Library file. You were lucky to be able to rename it,because some functions of Windows use that file.

You should be VERY careful renaming or replacing this file or other runtime libraries in your Windows/System folder!!! Changing it may make some of your other apps fail, or even your explorer shell behave erratically. It sometimes works to place the file in the same folder as the app's .exe so that it will be found fist by the app that needs it. All apps check their home folder first for a dll, and if not there will look in windows - several different versions of a dll can co-exist in this fashion on a computer - UNTIL one of your programs tries to call a different version of a file that is allready open by another app - BIG crash!. Its best to leave your system folder alone unless you create a multi-boot system with profiles created for special apps (which is what I do).

Thanks for the heads up! I was able to rename it after I cleared the attributes, and I renamed it as .old just in case- so far everything is working fine, though. And my Propack is working now, a huge relief. The CL tech told me to replace it, but the page he sent me to didn't have the file, so I had to go hunting.