MSETUP.INF Does Not Decompress OLECLI.DLL and OLESVR.DLL

 Last reviewed: July 30, 1997
Article ID: Q83432
The information in this article applies to:
  • Microsoft Word for Windows, versions 2.0 and 2.0a-CD

SUMMARY

With Microsoft Word for Windows versions 2.0a and 2.0a-CD, if you use the 5.25-inch, 1.2 MB disks to perform a manual setup, MSETUP.INF does not copy OLESVR.DLL and OLECLI.DLL to the hard drive. You must manually decompress these files from the original disks and place them in the Microsoft Windows SYSTEM subdirectory.

Note: Be sure to run MSETUP.INF as a batch file (MSETUP.BAT) from the hard disk. This batch file is for use with Microsoft Windows version 3.0 only.

Note: MSETUP.INF is not included with version 2.0b of Word for Windows.

MORE INFORMATION

The first time you launch Word for Windows after running MSETUP.BAT, you receive the following error messages: 

   Change Disk. Cannot find OLECLI.DLL. Please insert in drive A:

   Change Disk. Cannot find OLESVR.DLL. Please insert in drive A:
Copy DECOMP.EXE from Disk 1 to the Word for Windows program directory (for example, COPY A:DECOMP.EXE C:\WINWORD). The OLESVR.DL$ file is found in the DLL directory on Disk 1. The OLECLI.DL$ file is located in the DLL directory on Disk 2. You must manually decompress these files from the original disks and place them in the Microsoft Windows SYSTEM subdirectory, as in the following example: 

   DECOMP A:\DLL\OLESVR.DL$ C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\OLESVR.DLL

   DECOMP A:\DLL\OLECLI.DL$ C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\OLECLI.DLL
Word for Windows uses these files to perform object-linking-and-embedding functions. They must be in the Windows SYSTEM subdirectory in order for Word for Windows to run them.

For more information on using the MSETUP.INF file to perform a manual, minimal installation of Word for Windows, query on the following words in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: 

   msetup.inf and pss.txt and utility and decomp.exe and 2.0a

KBCategory: kbsetup kbtshoot
KBSubcategory:
Additional query words: 2.0a err msg errmsg winword2

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Last reviewed: July 30, 1997
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