"Cannot Find MMSYSTEM.DLL" Loading VB MCI.VBX in Windows 3.0

Last reviewed: June 21, 1995
Article ID: Q83758

The information in this article applies to:

- Professional Edition of Microsoft Visual Basic for Windows,

  versions 2.0 and 3.0

- Microsoft Professional Toolkit for Microsoft Visual Basic programming

  system for Windows, version 1.0

SUMMARY

The Microsoft Professional Toolkit for Microsoft Visual Basic version 1.0 for Windows comes with a custom control that gives you easy access to writing applications for multimedia. Without Windows 3.1 or Multimedia Extensions for Windows 3.0, you will not be able to load the MCI.VBX custom control file into the Visual Basic programming environment.

If you try to load MCI.VBX into Windows 3.0 without Multimedia Extensions, you will receive the following error message:

   Cannot find MMSYSTEM.DLL, Please insert in drive A:

For more information about Multimedia Extensions for Windows 3.0, contact your local subsidiary, or call Microsoft End User Sales and Service at (800) 426-9400. A better solution is to upgrade to Windows version 3.1.

Additional reference words: 1.00 2.00 3.00
KBCategory: kbprg
KBSubcategory: PrgCtrlsCus

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Last reviewed: June 21, 1995
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