Odd AIM Problem

[CIVPhilzilla]

Today, when my friend tried to send me a file over aim it kept disconnecting us. I realized I needed the new AIM vr. 5.5. Anyway I dled and then when I tried to install it at the end it says:

Error Starting Program
A required .DLL file, C:\\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\MSVCRT40.DLL, was not found.

and another one saying:

C:\PROGRA~1\AIM\AOLOND~1.EXE
Windows cannot find 'C:\PROGRA~1\AIM\AOLOND~1.EXE'. You may have typed the name incorrectly in the Run dialog box, or another open program cannot find a system file. To search for a file, click the Start button, and then click search.

It then shut down b4 completling it. I run aim and its completly different as it no longer had the Dead AIM program running with it. I tried reinstalling dead aim no good. I tried uninstalling aim, it didnt work. So I searched and found the uninstall prg myself and unistalled it. Now I can't even get AIM to install, all I get is those 2 messages.

Any help would be greatly appriciated. Thanks in advance.

 

[Cedric Greene]

Oh you broke it! Kidding of course, hopefully. But as should be known to most Deadaim users, the new versions of AIM are not compatable. I would try installing an older version of AIM to see if it will let you. You can get older versions of AIM from www.oldversion.com . If it doesn't work (even if it does) you may be better off with Trillian which can be gotten from www.trillian.cc

 

[CIVPhilzilla]

Thanks Cedric, I got it working again with an older version. Just got to upload dead AIM again.