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Originally posted by RaceProUK
My guess is it'll install the file anyway. After all, it's still an upgrade, just from 'nothing' 
In general that wont work at all. An upgrade will not install unless you have the 'older' version. Extremely many redists come as upgrades and will not be installed as 'new'.
quote:
Originally posted by yourmama_20
the dll's are all legal, theres nothing illegal about hosting dll files aslong as they aren't tampered with.
you are allowed to copy and paste dlls into system 32 as well as sometimes some programs won't work becoz they are missing dll files from older installs of windows.
absolutely wrong. Most of all those DLLs are not allowed to be redistributed!!!! And there are perfectly good reasons for it too. Almost all those DLLs have different versions, not to mention have different branches for different OSes. Bluntly downloading a DLL from a random site and copying it to your system32 directory is:
1) illegal
2) will quite often produce other problems (and quite often not that visible at first)
3) will almost always not properly install the DLL in question. (it doesn't mean that if your app works now, that the DLL is installed properly in the registry for other apps).
If you are missing a DLL it is very very very adviseable to download the
official and
latest redistributeable package for
your OS version from the
official Download Center of Microsoft.
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