Front Page - Cannot open DLL “stsnwi.dll” while opening a (sub)web

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Cannot open DLL “stsnwi.dll” while opening a (sub)web

JustMe@Home

2004-04-23, 7:28 am

After upgrading FrontPage to FrontPage 2003, opening a web results in
an error: Cannot open DLL “stsnwi.dll”

This problem occurs when MS Knowledge Base article Q250376 (Frontpage
Repeatedly Prompts for User Name and Password When You Open a Web) is
applied. To resolve this problem, a registry setting had to be added.

This registry setting is not removed when upgrading to FrontPage 2003.

To solve this problem:
1. Start regedit.exe
2. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Web
Server Extensions\Web Extender Client
3. Look for a value named wecctlflags
4. Either delete this value or set it to zero

Background info:
The "wecctlflags" is a testing value left over from previous versions
of FrontPage. Setting the value to 2 forces FrontPage to attempt to
bypass WinInet for Internet functionality, so earlier versions of
FrontPage would fall back on their built-in Internet libraries that
were named "xxxxNWI.DLL", where the "xxxx" portion of the file name
represented the naming convention for the version of FrontPage. So for
FrontPage 2000 and FrontPage 2002 the files were "FP4ANWI.DLL" and
"FP5ANWI.DLL" respectively.

In the case of FrontPage 2003, the naming convention would be
"STSxxxx.DLL", hence the error message displaying the filename that
you were seeing. Since we don't support that fall-back functionality
any more, we don't ship the DLL that FrontPage was trying to find, but
the code is still in the product to look for it when "wecctlflags" is
set.

spectre

2005-09-26, 11:29 am

I have this problem but cannot find the folder
Web Extender Client
nor do I find wecctlflags
I have tried uninstalling Frontpage 2003 to no avail
When I go to "My Network Places" and click on my website name, it says "File Not Found"
What can I do to resolve this?
THanks!

Stefan B Rusynko

2005-09-27, 7:02 pm

It sounds like at one time you may have configured your Registry to bypass some other issue or something. You need to reset the
registry:
Note that editing the registry can be dangerous!!!\
- always make a back up first

Exit all running applications
Open th registry editor & Browse to this path in REGEDIT:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Web Server Extensions\Web Extender Client]

Then:
Remove the "wecctlflags" value.

Does that help?

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| I have this problem but cannot find the folder
| Web Extender Client
| nor do I find wecctlflags
| I have tried uninstalling Frontpage 2003 to no avail
| When I go to "My Network Places" and click on my website name, it says
| "File Not Found"
| What can I do to resolve this?
| THanks!
|
|
|
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| spectre
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Steve Easton

2005-09-30, 10:18 pm

Right click on an entry in My Network Places, select properties and see what the "Target"
is.

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"spectre" <spectre.1vzlhd@mail.forum4designers.com> wrote in message
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>
> I have this problem but cannot find the folder
> Web Extender Client
> nor do I find wecctlflags
> I have tried uninstalling Frontpage 2003 to no avail
> When I go to "My Network Places" and click on my website name, it says
> "File Not Found"
> What can I do to resolve this?
> THanks!
>
>
>
> --
> spectre
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> Posted via http://www.forum4designers.com
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> View this thread: http://www.forum4designers.com/message74138.html
>