Re: Premiere Pro 1.5 and msvcrt.dll - freezing on startup?

I haven't had this problem myself, but have seen reports like this in various forums for Premiere and Photoshop and other applications.

The problem usually comes down to the fact that the msvcrt.dll (or msvcrt70, or msvcrt71, etc.) file is located in the WindowsSystem32 directory and some applications have a bad habit of copying their own version of the file in there. Premiere Pro has it's customized version located in it's own root directory (Adobe is smart enough not to overwrite system files), but if the DLL is already loaded into system memory, it's probably not trying to launch it. Instead it ends up trying to use the actively loaded version, and crashes when it encounters a non-MS alteration.

Best bet is for you to get a clean copy of the Microsoft version of the file, from your i386 folder or Windows install disk, and copy it back in to the System32 directory.