[cw-discuss] What to do when some windows component is broken

[bill at sunsouthwest.com]

Rolf-Werner Eilert wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> When installing Office2k, crossover complainted about a "missing or 
> damaged ils.dll" [what a precise statement this is] but installation was 
> successfully completed without it. Everything runs flawlessly so far.
>
> What is ils.dll good for, and could I install it manually?
>
> Thanks for your time.
>   
Windows by design has thousands of 'problems', and we're always
promised fixes in ''the next version'' if not the next service pack.

It usually works best to just google* for an answer to these questions.

For example:  http://support.microsoft.com/kb/311139

...tells us this is most often related to Windows 98, and if you needed
a stand-alone copy of Netmeeting to ''re-install'' you can find one here:

 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=26c9da7c-f778-4422-a6f4-efb8abba021e&displaylang=en

Of course, if you're not going to be using Netmeeting, this 'fix' might
as well be skipped.

Because of all the flaws in it's products, microsoft has a support staff
about 1100 times the size of the entire Codeweavers company. Often
a better source of solutions and work-arounds comes from the user
base, most easily found using a search engine.

Bill

* Google is a financial supporter of Codeweavers and their efforts
  to allow computer users to run Windows applications on a non-
  microsoft operating system. Microsoft strongly opposes this effort
  and suggests you run microsoft applications on windows ONLY!