<DISCLAIMER> Follow these instructions AT YOUR OWN RISK. We had no problems at all doing this, but if you are playing with GDI+ on your Win 2000 machine, you better know what you are doing! If you are not careful, you run the risk of breaking any other GDI+ applications you have on your machine. BUT, if you ARE CAREFUL, it worked for us, so good luck to you. I am no way, shape, or form responsible for anything you do to your machine by following (or not correctly following) these directions. If you are unsure of yourself, please find someone else who would be comfortable doing this for you. </DISCLAIMER>
We were trying to install Windows Defender today at work on a few older Windows 2000 machines and got the error below:
This software requires GDI+, Please load the Windows 2000 Security Software PreRequisite Pack.
With the help of a friendly consultant here at work, here's what we came up with: What we ended up doing here was getting the newest version of gdiplus.dll (from the framework 2.0 folder) from our machine, copying it to system32, and then it let us install the app, once it installed, but before we actually ran the app once, we copied the gdiplus.dll to the WindowsDefender directory to get it away from system32 (since the directions were very clear not to put it here, we didn't want to leave it here) . That seemed to work, but I don't reccomend people who are not afraid to GdiScrew their machines to do this :)
If there a more user friendly way to do this, please let me know. It worked for us, we're all set, but I dunno how people will feel having their mothers and other non-tech people doing this :)
Link to Windows Defender http://microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx
Link to GDIPlus installer (self executing zip, ignore the directions and put it in the System32 folder for install, then move it to the Defender folder.: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/gdicpp/GDIPlus/GDIPlus.asp
<DISCLAIMER> Follow these instructions AT YOUR OWN RISK. We had no problems at all doing this, but if you are playing with GDI+ on your Win 2000 machine, you better know what you are doing! If you are not careful, you run the risk of breaking any other GDI+ applications you have on your machine. BUT, if you ARE CAREFUL, it worked for us, so good luck to you. I am no way, shape, or form responsible for anything you do to your machine by following (or not correctly following) these directions. If you are unsure of yourself, please find someone else who would be comfortable doing this for you. </DISCLAIMER>