{"id":3394,"date":"2011-03-08T15:56:22","date_gmt":"2011-03-08T21:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/royceeddington.com\/?p=3394"},"modified":"2011-03-08T15:57:51","modified_gmt":"2011-03-08T21:57:51","slug":"virtual-device-driver-failed-dll-initialization-error-fix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/?p=3394","title":{"rendered":"“Virtual device driver failed DLL initialization” error fix"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you ever get the nightmare error that is “Virtual device driver failed DLL initialization” on a windows app, there’s a surprisingly easy fix for it.<\/p>\n

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  1. Start the registry editor<\/li>\n
  2. Go to\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\CURRENTCONTROLSET\\CONTROL\\VIRTUALDEVICEDRIVERS\\VDD<\/li>\n
  3. Highlight that value. Then go to EDIT and choose DELETE.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    DONE!! No multi-hour troubleshooting-everything-else-and-the-kitchen-sink-to-fix-it kind of thing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    If you ever get the nightmare error that is “Virtual device driver failed DLL initialization” on a windows app, there’s a surprisingly easy fix for it. Start the registry editor Go to\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\CURRENTCONTROLSET\\CONTROL\\VIRTUALDEVICEDRIVERS\\VDD Highlight that value. Then go to EDIT … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pfyw-SK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3394"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3396,"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3394\/revisions\/3396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}