Greetings. I'm new to these boards, and I'm hoping someone can help me out on this one. This is pretty maddening... Yesterday, I had to uninstall and install again the following progs: -MSVC++ 6 Enterprise Edition -MSSDK 8 -MSVC++ Service Pack 5 -Processor Pack I had some unbelievable corruption errors, so I decided for the hard road. Thing is, NOW I cannot set BreakPoints in the source code of the 2 projs I'm working on. The infamous message box "One or more breakpoints cannot be set and have been disabled. Execution will..." Furthermore, the output window shows this "No matching symbolic information found" message repeatedly for several .dll files. I've added Aditional DLLs in the proper place, to force VC++ to load the said DLLs before running the code, but didn't work. Microsoft says these 2 facts (the message box for the breakpoints and the output messages) are inter-related, but I've done everything "by the book", as they advised, and nothing worked. I've installed SDK debug version (you can choose between that and retail) and downloaded Microsoft's DDK for .sym files. Right now, I get these output messages: Loaded 'G:\MIG\game\Mig.exe', no matching symbolic information found. Loaded symbols for 'C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\MSVCIRTD.DLL' Loaded symbols for 'C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\MFCO42D.DLL' Loaded symbols for 'C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\MSVCRTD.DLL' Loaded symbols for 'C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\MFC42D.DLL' Loaded 'G:\MIG\game\Smackw32.dll', no matching symbolic information found. Loaded symbols for 'C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\DINPUT.DLL' Loaded 'C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\WINMM.DLL', no matching symbolic information found. Loaded 'G:\MIG\game\Mss32.dll', no matching symbolic information found. Loaded 'C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\VERSION.DLL', no matching symbolic information found. Loaded 'C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\NTDLL.DLL', no matching symbolic information found. Loaded symbols for 'C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\DDRAW.DLL' Loaded 'C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\OLE32.DLL', no matching symbolic information found. Loaded 'C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\ADVAPI32.DLL', no matching symbolic information found. Loaded 'C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\GDI32.DLL', no matching symbolic information found. Loaded 'C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\USER32.DLL', no matching symbolic information found. Loaded 'C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\KERNEL32.DLL', no matching symbolic information found. Loaded 'C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\MFC42LOC.DLL', no matching symbolic information found. I've managed to get my hands on .dbg files and some .pdb, but DINPUT.DLL, WINMM.DLL, VERSION.DLL', NTDLL.DLL', OLE32.DLL', ADVAPI32.DLL', GDI32.DLL',USER32.DLL',KERNEL32.DLL', MFC42LOC.DLL all seem to require .pdb files, which I don't have (just .dbf for them). Somehow, by uninstalling the whole package (mentioned above), I've eliminated most symbol files...Now, where can I get these dll's pdb files, for Windows 98? I've searched hours on end Microsoft's Knowledge Base, for nothing. All they have is .Net oriented, or Win2k/WinXP oriented, seems there's nothing for Win98 based development. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

It amazes me that of all the IDEs that I install on my Windows boxes the only one that corrupts everything is MS Visual Studio. What I had to do was: 1)run application un-install 2)Manually delete the leftover directories, 3)clean the registries 4)then Install a fresh copy 5)Reinstall OS Patches/SR & Application Patches/SR

Thanks for the response. I already tried that, as you can read above. It seems the only answer may lie on getting the .dbg and .pdb files related to the said DLLs, which possess the necessary symbolic information. But I don't know where to get them. Microsoft's not a solution, they ain't got nothin for Win 98 (apart from the DDKs, which are not enough). Chronus

Hello, I'm having the same problems after re-installing MSVC++ 6 Enterprise Edition on a Windows 98 system. I receive an access error when attempting to run a project in debug mode. Debug symbols for the following DLLs appear to be missing: winmm, oleaut32, msvcrt20, ole32, oledlg, winspool, shell32, shlwapi, comdlg32, advapi32, gdi32, user32, kernel32, and version. I've had no success trying to link the Win98 DDK to VSC++. Does anyone know if the problem may lie with Windows 98, VSC++, the particular project, or something else? Thanks!