explorer.dll. The specified module could not be found.
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You may also try with admin privileges. Never knows…
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Thanks for running the experiment and giving the debug info.
And it can’t work either!
unfortunately, that doesn’t tell us what went wrong. Were there error messages? If so, screenshot them and include them, please. If no error messages, what exactly happened when you tried? Be as explicit as you can, telling us about every click or keystroke.
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Could it be that it finds another explorer.dll first?
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@PeterJones said in explorer.dll. The specified module could not be found.:
unfortunately, that doesn’t tell us what went wrong. Were there error messages?
The same message.
c:\notepad++\plugins\explorer\explorer.dll
The specified module could not be found.
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The same message.
c:\notepad++\plugins\explorer\explorer.dllIt gave the error message for
c:\notepad++\plugins\explorer\explorer.dllwhen you tried to install it while runningC:\Users\Carlos\Desktop\npp.7.8.6.bin\notepad++.exe? That doesn’t seem right to me: the one on your desktop shouldn’t know anything aboutc:\notepad++. Are you sure when Notepad++ re-launched after you installed the plugin in your desktop copy that it correctly ran the desktop copy again?Further, I like @Ekopalypse’s theory: your Notepad++ is somehow finding a different explorer.dll. Two experiments for that, using your desktop copy of Notepad++ (we’re still trying to keep things independent of other settings and plugins that might be interfering):
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cmd.exe), you could trywhere explorer.dll: if there’s an explorer.dll in your path (that it would thus possibly find before going to the plugins\explorer\explorer.dll), the cmd.exewherecommand might tell you about it. - Go into desktop`npp.7.8.6.bin\plugins`, rename the folder
explorertoMyExplorerand the dll that wasexplorer\explorer.dlltoMyExplorer\MyExplorer.dll. Close Notepad++. Run the desktop copy of Notepad++.
- From a command prompt (
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You may also try to use the Proc Monitor tools , to check which explorer.dll is loaded.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/procmon
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Here is a screenshot of procMonitor which could be tricky to use.
Add a filter " process name contains notepad" and “paht contains explorer.dll”. Then you’ll se detail operations and query and its status.
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@PeterJones said in explorer.dll. The specified module could not be found.:
It gave the error message for c:\notepad++\plugins\explorer\explorer.dll when you tried to install it while running C:\Users\Carlos\Desktop\npp.7.8.6.bin\notepad++.exe? That doesn’t seem right to me
I meant the same message except the path.
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>where explorer.dll
INFO: Could not find files for the given pattern(s).
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@Carlos-Zhang said in explorer.dll. The specified module could not be found.:
I meant the same message except the path.
I’m sorry for misunderstanding.
INFO: Could not find files for the given pattern(s).
I thought it might show something else, which would have made it easier to debug. But alas, it did not.
Please make sure you try @cmeriaux’s suggestion of procMonitor, which can precisely identify the location of the DLL Notepad++ is really trying to load. And please make sure you try my suggestion #2 of renaming the DLL and its folder.
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@cmeriaux said in explorer.dll. The specified module could not be found.:
Here is a screenshot of procMonitor which could be tricky to use.
I happen to have another tool Process Hacker which can also find dlls.
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@Carlos-Zhang said in explorer.dll. The specified module could not be found.:
I happen to have another tool Process Hacker which can also find dlls.
I don’t think this is the same goal.
ProcMonitor will say which DDL notepad++ querys on plugin loading.
Process hacker will say which one is in use but in your situation , explorer.dll is not loaded, so it’s not in use. You’ll wont find it in process hacker -
Suggestion:
OP is doing too much thinking and this is a problem because his thinking is counter-productive to the thinking of the people trying to help him.
OP needs to do (exactly and only) what the helpers are suggesting, and report back clear results.
That’s the only way this is going to get solved for the OP. My 2c.
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Hi, @peterjones and All,
Sorry to answer only now, but my wife and I spent the big weekend of
May 1stdoing some interior renovations, in our living room !
I also got problems with the plugin explorer.dll (
v1.8.8.0 - x86 - 222,720 bytes) !When I started N++, I was told that
This application could not be start as MSVCP140.dll could not be found! I started searching with theDependency Walkersoftware and it happened that all the following DLL were missing to getexplorer.dllto work properly !********************************| Module List |********************************* * * * Legend: D Delay Load Module ? Missing Module 6 64-bit Module * * * Dynamic Module ! Invalid Module * * E Import/Export Mismatch or Load Failure * * * ******************************************************************************** Module File Time Stamp Link Time Stamp File Size Attr. Link Checksum Real Checksum CPU Subsystem Symbols Preferred Base Actual Base Virtual Size Load Order File Ver Product Ver Image Ver Linker Ver OS Ver Subsystem Ver ----- ------------------------------------- ---------------- ---------------- ---------- ----- ------------- ------------- --- --------- ---------- -------------- ----------- ------------ ---------- --------------- --------------- --------- ---------- ------ ------------- [ ? ] API-MS-WIN-CRT-CONVERT-L1-1-0.DLL Error opening file. Le fichier spécifié est introuvable (2). [ ? ] API-MS-WIN-CRT-ENVIRONMENT-L1-1-0.DLL Error opening file. Le fichier spécifié est introuvable (2). [ ? ] API-MS-WIN-CRT-FILESYSTEM-L1-1-0.DLL Error opening file. Le fichier spécifié est introuvable (2). [ ? ] API-MS-WIN-CRT-HEAP-L1-1-0.DLL Error opening file. Le fichier spécifié est introuvable (2). [ ? ] API-MS-WIN-CRT-LOCALE-L1-1-0.DLL Error opening file. Le fichier spécifié est introuvable (2). [ ? ] API-MS-WIN-CRT-MATH-L1-1-0.DLL Error opening file. Le fichier spécifié est introuvable (2). [ ? ] API-MS-WIN-CRT-MULTIBYTE-L1-1-0.DLL Error opening file. Le fichier spécifié est introuvable (2). [ ? ] API-MS-WIN-CRT-RUNTIME-L1-1-0.DLL Error opening file. Le fichier spécifié est introuvable (2). [ ? ] API-MS-WIN-CRT-STDIO-L1-1-0.DLL Error opening file. Le fichier spécifié est introuvable (2). [ ? ] API-MS-WIN-CRT-STRING-L1-1-0.DLL Error opening file. Le fichier spécifié est introuvable (2). [ ? ] API-MS-WIN-CRT-TIME-L1-1-0.DLL Error opening file. Le fichier spécifié est introuvable (2). [ ? ] API-MS-WIN-CRT-UTILITY-L1-1-0.DLL Error opening file. Le fichier spécifié est introuvable (2). [ ? ] VCRUNTIME140.DLL Error opening file. Le fichier spécifié est introuvable (2). [D? ] CONCRT140.DLL Error opening file. Le fichier spécifié est introuvable (2). [D? ] IESHIMS.DLL Error opening file. Le fichier spécifié est introuvable (2). [D? ] WER.DLL Error opening file. Le fichier spécifié est introuvable (2). ... ... ... ************************************| Log |************************************* Error: At least one required implicit or forwarded dependency was not found. Warning: At least one delay-load dependency module was not found. Warning: At least one module has an unresolved import due to a missing export function in a delay-load dependent module.
However, after download and installation of the missing dll, either, in
system32folder or in...\Plugins\Explorer, I always got the same messageThis application could not be start as MSVCP140.dll could not be found:-((.Luckily, the next day, I found out the solution ! As my
Win WP SP3laptop is quite an antiquity, when rebuilding the OS, after aCpartition crash, in 2018, I simply had installed theMicrosoft Visual C++ 2013 Redistribuable x86So I decided to upgrade and downloaded the
Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015. As the requirements includeWin XP SP3, even ifVS2015is not present, and that some hardware specifications were OK, I ran the executable and restarted my laptop.And…, miraculously, after starting notepad++, no more error message and the
Explorerplugin was well installed and fully functional ;-))Best Regards,
guy038
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@PeterJones said in explorer.dll. The specified module could not be found.:
And please make sure you try my suggestion #2 of renaming the DLL and its folder.
Yes I did. Please see above.
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@Carlos-Zhang said in explorer.dll. The specified module could not be found.:
Yes I did. Please see above.
Sorry, it looked so much like the post above that I didn’t notice the picture was different. My bad.
It does not look like Windows is trying to load the wrong DLL when Notepad++ requests Explorer.dll / MyExplorer.dll. So, that’s good news … but also not helpful, unfortunately. :-(
My next guess would be that @guy038 is on the right track: try to download the most recent “Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable”: I believe that this MS page has the most recent versions of the redistributables. Since you are on 64bit OS, but using 32bit applications, I would suggest installing both the x86 and the x64 versions from the 2015/2017/2019 section at the top.
If that isn’t sufficient, since you do have a 64bit OS, try downloading the 64bit Notepad++ portable zipfile, and unzip it to your desktop. Try to install the Explorer plugin in the 64bit (using Plugins Admin), and see if that one works better for you.
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@cmeriaux said in explorer.dll. The specified module could not be found.:
ProcMonitor will say which DDL notepad++ querys on plugin loading.
Here you are.
