"MSVCR80.dll Missing"

Thank you for posting this.

Started getting that error today and I could find no remedy following logical problem determination approaches.

Your suggestion of "uninstalling everything Apple" out of my laptop, then reinstalling iTunes worked perfectly !

abernaert wrote:

And also another very strange thing:.iTunes doesn't even seem to use msvcr80.dll.
After reinstalling I can't find the file anywhere.

I've got plenty of copies, but none in the iTunes/Apple folders. Someyhing related then, like a registry setting to check for a dependency that is no longer required. Whatever the actual cause a workaround in the hand is worth two in...? Well, you know what I mean.

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I did everything you said, but the apple mobile device support refuses to uninstall. everything else has uninstalled. I've tried it five times now and as it gets to the end of the uninstall - it seems to back up and then it just shuts down. NOW WHAT?

Indeed plenty of copies, but none linking to iTunes or any other Apple product.

Well done and thanks for the info as worked a treat!

I would of been pulling my hair out if I hadn't of seen this.

Thanks again

The prefix "msvc" in msvcr80.dll indicates it is something that programs use that were written using the MicroSoft Visual C++ compiler. msvcr80.dll is used by many, probably all, such programs. It is therefore in the Windows directory, actually in something called the WinSxS folder (see Visual C++ Libraries as Shared Side-by-Side Assemblies) in the Windows folder. So in other words, it is a system file.

msvcr80.dll is mentioned explicitly in Visual Studio 64-bit Components.

It is unlikely that msvcr80.dll is missing from any of our systems. The actual cause of this problem with iTunes is more tecnical than I am capable of understanding and I assume that no one here that is not a developer wants to understand.

In other words, no real reason then for iTunes to wine about ths file missing ?!?

Update 11.1.4 corrupted a registry setting?

Not to worry...saw that each of the 2-3 times I tried it too.

Finally I stopped worrying about that, uninstalled everything else Apple, did a clean shutdown / reboot, then downloaded a fresh install of iTunes...and everything fell into place as it should...

I have been dealing with this annoying issue for the past 48 hours. I tried your suggestion otacon72 and it worked like a charm. THANKS!!!! I was beginning to think that iTunes, my playlists/music andcomputer were completely hosed. Everything was fine after the reinstall.

I'm shocked at the very idea!

How do you set it as Admin as I am struggling to even get it to work right at all - I have uninstalled it I have rebooted it I have downloaded it and it still won't fully download at all any ideas what I could be doing wrong here Suggestions are greatly accepted right now

In windows 7, all I had to do was right click on the download file and choose "run as administrator".

Otacon72's solution yesterday worked exactily as advertised. I have tested it pretty thoroughly, and the only hiccup that I could get it to do was itunes stopped responding when I unplugged my iphone immediatly after a sync. It only did that once, and it hasn't repeated...

Still working great.

it worked for me also in XP and windows 7 . No files missing. thank you

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For all of you that used Otacon72s solution and said that your libraries were intact when you reinstalled, did you have to enter in your apple ids. My issue is that we have itunes on our computer under two different accounts. One is associated with an apple id and the other account has a ton of cds added that were added to a different ipod but an apple id/account was never created. Will they still have all of there music restored too or does the music need to be backed up? And how can you backup all the music when this error won't even let you open the itunes program in general? Thanks in advance

Thanks a million mspanner! This just worked for me 🙂