cod 2

When I installed Vista, COD 2 was moved to the windows.old folder, where the game refuses to run. When I inset the disc, I get the following message:
--------------------------- G:\Setup\rsrc\cod2.exe --------------------------- Executable 'G:\Setup\rsrc\cod2.exe' had the following unrecoverable error: Couldn't find library MSVCR80.dll (required by C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\OFFICE12\MSOXMLMF.DLL) Please ensure that it is installed --------------------------- the game won't play. Any ideas? I can't find the CD Key to reinstall the game and don't know how to get it from the installed one.
Thanks!

Ret4425 You must reinstall the game. The key would have been in the old XP system registry but you won`t be able to find it now. Without the key you`re stuffed mate, sorry !

"ret4425" wrote:

When I installed Vista, COD 2 was moved to the windows.old folder, where the game refuses to run. When I inset the disc, I get the following message:
--------------------------- G:\Setup\rsrc\cod2.exe --------------------------- Executable 'G:\Setup\rsrc\cod2.exe' had the following unrecoverable error: Couldn't find library MSVCR80.dll (required by C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\OFFICE12\MSOXMLMF.DLL) Please ensure that it is installed --------------------------- the game won't play. Any ideas? I can't find the CD Key to reinstall the game and don't know how to get it from the installed one.
Thanks!

The problem appears to originate when .Net 2.0 components cannot find various support files. We were able to reproduce it by installing Windows Defender Beta 2.0 and once Windows Defender was uninstalled our program then functioned fine.
It cannot find the MSVCR80.dll file either because the Microsoft .Net 2.0 does not install this file in the Windows\System32 directory. This apparently has caused major problems with hundreds of programs as we found plenty of results in the web search on it.
If removing windows defender doesnt work or you don't have it I would manually remove the .net framework and any updates you have for it and then try and reinstall.
Windows defender is the main problem that is causing this. I WOULD NOT add anything to you windows32 files or windows directly unless you know what it is. (as it will cause problems in the future).
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