Selva wrote:
> I exactly had the same issue what is posted here and I followed Method 2 of
> KB article 836982 and it worked perfect.
>
> Thanks Martin for your posting.
>
> "Martin Emanuelsson" wrote:
>
> > I believe I managed to solve it myself rather quickly, fortunately.
> >
> > Stumbled across this KB article
> > (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;836982) and
> > followed Method 2 of the resolution part, and I think that solved my
> > problem.
> >
> > Best regards
> > Martin
> >
> >
> >
> > "Martin Emanuelsson" <martin.emanuelsson@guide.se> wrote in message
> > news:%23SXmqgsgFHA.1868@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I have a big problem which I hope you people can help me with.
> > >
> > > When I try starting my VS.NET 2003 I get an error message saying:
> > >
> > > Visual Studio .NET is unable to load because the file MSXML3.DLL
> > cannot
> > > be loaded.
> > > Please see Knowledge base article Q306905 at
> > > http://support.microsoft.com.
> > >
> > > I've looked at this article but I don't believe that will solve my problem
> > > since it talks about a beta version of MSXML 4.0, which I as far as I know
> > > haven't installed on my computer. Which makes it impossible for me to even
> > > get past the first step of the article, unregistering MSXML4.DLL.
> > >
> > > I've downloaded and run the MSXML 3.0 Service Pack 5 files from Microsofts
> > > download-sites but that hasn't fixed it.
> > >
> > > I've also tried manually registering the msxml3.dll, which I've read on a
> > > couple of pages should work, for instance here
> > > (http://www.dotnet247.com/247reference/msgs/57/288859.aspx), but when I
> > try
> > > to do this I get another error message. I'm not very familiar with
> > manually
> > > registering DLL's but when I try to execute this command in a command
> > > window, regsvr32 c:\winnt\system32\msxml3.dll, I get an error message
> > saying
> > > "LoadLibrary("C:\winnt\system32\msxml3.dll") failed - A dynamic link
> > library
> > > (DLL) initialization routine failed."
> > >
> > > Can anyone please point me to the right direction to how to solve this?
> > >
> > > By the way, this all started after I did a "Microsoft Update" instead of a
> > > "Windows Update" which to me doesn't really makes sense. After that update
> > I
> > > first got an error message for my MSN Toolbar, and then I noticed that
> > > VS.NET didn't work either. And after this happened the Windows Update only
> > > shows a white page and the Microsoft update returns error code 0x8007045A.
> > >
> > > Best regards
> > > Martin Emanuelsson
> > > Gothenburg, Sweden
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >