Something about a .dll file. 

I just bought the upgrade from Poser 12 and it's throwing fits all over the place when I try to install it. 
Anyone else having these issues and how do one fix it?

The error message says 

You may find this is down to your anti virus program.  There is another thread here at Renderosity that reports the F-Secure sees this as a file that could do damage to the computer and puts it in quarantine.  All F-Secure users have had to allow this file to be added as F-Secure is seeing it as a false positive for a virus.  You may not have F-Secure but it seems too much of a coincidence that the file you are having trouble with is the exact same file out of all the files in Poser 13. 

You could try suspending your anti virus just while you install Poser 13 to see if that works but the anti virus may still cut in when re-activated.   

The other possibility is that Windows User Account Control (UAC) is blocking the program as it tries to protect anything on the 'C' drive.  This is why you sometimes have to run programs as an administrator which is something you might want to do with the installer.  To do this just click on the Install Poser 13 icon and right click, select run as administrator from the list.  If this fails the other option is get around UAC by installing Poser 13 on a different drive.  I lot of users do this as a matter of course to avoid UAC problems.

Thank you hornet3D! That is surely it and I ought to have known. 😁

Update. 😊
I had to install on another drive and now it is working. Thank you for the advice. 😊

Tiny posted at 12:39 PM Sat, 8 April 2023 - #4461303

Update. 😊
I had to install on another drive and now it is working. Thank you for the advice. 😊

You are welcome.  I do know that many users install Poser to a drive other than drive C just to avoid conflicts with Windows UAC.

hornet3d posted at 8:29 PM Sat, 8 April 2023 - #4461399

Tiny posted at 12:39 PM Sat, 8 April 2023 - #4461303

Update. 😊
I had to install on another drive and now it is working. Thank you for the advice. 😊

You are welcome.  I do know that many users install Poser to a drive other than drive C just to avoid conflicts with Windows UAC.

It's my case, but not to avoid conflicts with UAC, just because I wanted that all Poser-related stuff (executables, runtimes, etc..) be on a dedicated, SSD drive, and to let Windows do its things on its drive: no mix  no problems
Furthermore, this lets me write Python scripts and drop them in one of the runtimes in a handy manner

Y-Phil posted at 7:44 AM Sun, 9 April 2023 - #4461435

hornet3d posted at 8:29 PM Sat, 8 April 2023 - #4461399

Tiny posted at 12:39 PM Sat, 8 April 2023 - #4461303

Update. 😊
I had to install on another drive and now it is working. Thank you for the advice. 😊

You are welcome.  I do know that many users install Poser to a drive other than drive C just to avoid conflicts with Windows UAC.

It's my case, but not to avoid conflicts with UAC, just because I wanted that all Poser-related stuff (executables, runtimes, etc..) be on a dedicated, SSD drive, and to let Windows do its things on its drive: no mix  no problems
Furthermore, this lets me write Python scripts and drop them in one of the runtimes in a handy manner

Good thinking! 😊

Y-Phil posted at 7:44 AM Sun, 9 April 2023 - #4461435

hornet3d posted at 8:29 PM Sat, 8 April 2023 - #4461399

Tiny posted at 12:39 PM Sat, 8 April 2023 - #4461303

Update. 😊
I had to install on another drive and now it is working. Thank you for the advice. 😊

You are welcome.  I do know that many users install Poser to a drive other than drive C just to avoid conflicts with Windows UAC.

It's my case, but not to avoid conflicts with UAC, just because I wanted that all Poser-related stuff (executables, runtimes, etc..) be on a dedicated, SSD drive, and to let Windows do its things on its drive: no mix  no problems
Furthermore, this lets me write Python scripts and drop them in one of the runtimes in a handy manner

That makes a lot of sense.

and guess what: Poser world lies on: the P: drive 

Y-Phil posted at 10:14 AM Mon, 10 April 2023 - #4461541

and guess what: Poser world lies on: the P: drive 

Far too logical for me.  Other than the program, all of my poser related files are on the 'M' and I think that is because that is what Windows suggested when I  added a new SSD drive to house all my content and the like.