Topic: cvirte.dll is missing

[KeaWeather]

I moved to Win 8 on a trial basis and I am having trouble with having VWS as a start up program. Even though I have start VWS in the options, it wouldn't start on its on.

After doing some research I found the start up folder and placed the VWS app on it. When I restart the comp I get the cvirte.dll file missing or corrupt dialog box. In the VWS folder this file is very much there.

Any suggestions or help will be appreciated.

[Garth Bock]

If you only placed the vws.exe in start up, then none of the configs or dll's will load since they are in a different folder of probably c:\program files\vws. You might want to go old school and create a batch file that points to the vws executible and place that in start. You could go new school and get Startwatch and have it start up VWS for you.

[KeaWeather]

Thank you for your help. My question now is how to create a batch file. I may need to go back to school to learn that.

Can anyone please explain this in simple steps?

[Garth Bock]

Does your VWS open up normally when launched from a desktop icon ? If so then:

Right click on the desktop icon
Go to Properties
Click on the General Tab
Look for Location - where the executable is
Copy that down

Open up Notepad
Type the location of the the executable (i.e.   c:\program files\vws\vws.exe  )
Type   Exit   on the next line
Save the file as something like   vwsstart.bat   <--- you must put the .bat at the end or it will save as a .txt file
Save it to your desktop

To test it ... double click on it and see if VWS launches properly...if so put the name of the batch file in Start

I tested it on my weather computer and it worked. This is very basic.....the Startwatch program would be better because it monitors and can restart weather programs that lockup or crash.

[KeaWeather]

Thanks working fine now.

[Garth Bock]

Cool. Glad to help.