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Topic: Version 4 installer

Paid and then downloaded V4 for windows to install on a Win10  machine. First try at installation failed with a message that a dll was missing. Ran the installer again and it claimed that the install was complete, giving me a choice to reinstall or launch. I chose launch and nothing happened. Trying to start the program from the Start menu also failed. I uninstalled and then reinstalled, same problem. Only anti-virus running is Windows defender. Never had any trouble with previous versions and V3.41 is running fine. Any ideas/suggestions?

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Re: Version 4 installer

Nevermind. Restarting the computer and then starting SF4 worked fine. Strange problem, but perhaps not that uncommon with Windows.

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Re: Version 4 installer

That is a strange issue.  Any idea what DLL it had complained about?

Jeff Armstrong
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Re: Version 4 installer

Unfortunately, I didn't make note of it and the error didn't appear when running the installer the second time.

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Re: Version 4 installer

Installing version 4.1 resulting in the same "Simply Fortran installation failed"  error, and I captured the message this time.

App installation failed with error message: error 0x8007007E: Failed to load the extension DLL due to the following error: The specified module could not be found.
. (0x8007007e)

Following the failed installation, Version 4.0 was still installed and ran ok.

I ran the installation a second time and Version 4.1 installed successfully.