On 29/03/2017 09:20, Terry Pinnell wrote:
Puzzled to find that a function of IrfanView I use many times a day is
not working this morning. Hitting F12 should pop-up a frequently used
tool window. I now get the error message:

Can't load Plugln: "PAlNT.DLL" !
Please install or update Pluglns from IrfanView homepage!

Re-installing (several times) made no difference. Nor a fresh download
of irfanview_plugins_444_setup.exe

Looking in C:\Program Files (x86)\IrfanView\Plugins I was also a bit
surprised to find that Paint.dll was not present. But nor was it in my
nightly or weekly backup of that folder. Which implies that perhaps it's
not *supposed* to be present - adding to the puzzle.

It *is* present in the 64-bit IrfanView version, and works properly. I
followed a recommendation to use the 32-bit version because more
plug-ins are supported!

Anyone know what might be going on here please?

Terry, East Grinstead, UK

If the 64-bit works, use it. Just checked my (rather older) IrfanView
32 on a 32-bit Win-10 and PAINT.DLL is listed as a plug-in. Perhaps if
you have both 32- and 64-bit installed the program is trying to use the
wrong version?

By the way, I install to C:\Tools\ rather than the more protected
Program Files tree(s), but I wouldn't recommend that for a shared PC.

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Cheers,
David
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