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I just downloaded and installed latest ooo i.e. 3.1 version. on executing soffice.exe i am getting error message saying : soffice.exe - unable to locate component. This application has failed to start because MSVCR90.DLL was not found. Re-installing may fix this problem."
I reinstalled the programme without success. I downloaded the dll file and placed it in c:/windows/system. then i got another error message saying : soffice.exe - application error " The application failed to initialize properly (0x80000003). Click on OK to terminate the application."

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Thanks for your reply.
But digestit says that hash verification matches.
is there any other solution?

I found the solution.
It is because of .menifest files being created in program directory.
I deleted all the files with **.exe.menifest extension and it just worked fine.

I just upgraded OpenOffice from 3.2.0 to 3.3.0 and then got the error message MSVCR90.DLL could not be found.
I did re-install OO 3.3.0, but then the next day after restarting the laptop did have the same problem.
The file is indeed missing on the location that is given. I now seem to have it solved by copying the file MSVCR80.DLL to MDVCR90.DLL...

Angela S. wrote:I now seem to have it solved by copying the file MSVCR80.DLL to MDVCR90.DLL...

Not really a good idea. Particularly not if you've done this in your system32 directory.
MS VC R stands fro MicroSoft Visual C Runtime. Typically each new version of the MS Visual C++ Compiler or Visual Studio Product comes with a new version of this Dll that contains most of the essential functionality of the common C libraries (opening files, manipulating strings, etc.) These runtime Dll are backward compatible so MSVCR90.DLL contains all functions of MSVCR80.DLL and accepts the same type of parameters for these functions. But not the other way round.
In other words sooner or later your will use one functionality of the OpenOffice installation that will use one of the new functions of the 90.dll and will cause the application to crash.
google for msvr90.dll or download the mysql extension, install it an then search your user profile for the msvr90.dll. This extension includes the ..90.dll

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My wireless adapter is not worked and i've been trying to get it to work on my os winxp but it says missing that specific dll. I've been all over the net in search of this dll.. but still can not solved .. plz help..

This is not an OpenOffice question, as it concerns a wireless adapter not working under Ubuntu (9.04 - an old version). You should try a search in ubuntuforums.org, using the name of your wireless adapter to get relevant replies.