Windows Vista: Unable to load DLL 'x.dll': Invalid access to memory location. (DllNotFoundException)

Question

I was testing on a customer\'s box this afternoon which has Windows Vista (He had home, but I am testing on a Business Edition with same results).

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Answer 1

Unable to load DLL 'HardwareID.dll': Invalid access to memory location. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x800703E6)

The name of DllNotFoundException is confusing you - this isn't a problem with finding or loading the DLL file, the problem is that when the DLL is loaded, it does an illegal memory access which causes the loading process to fail.

Like another poster here, I think this is a DEP problem, and that your UAC, etc, changes have finally allowed you to disable DEP for this application.