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    rc.exe

    hi, today i was building a program with VC++.Net and suddenly the compiler game me the error PRJ0003 : Error spawning 'rc.exe'. so i loaded another project and tried to compile, but it gave the same error. then i restarted the computer but no good. then i tried to reinstalled the IDE, but the installer program refused to copy the 'rc.exe' into the computer. i tried to manually execute/copy rc.exe from the cd, but it says that i don't have 'appropriate permission' to execute/copy the file. but im on my machine with the administer account. anyone know what's going on here? i can't use vc.net without re.exe. please help!

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    when you try to delete rc.exe off your machine - you get "permission denied"?

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    Do you have any antiviral software? Try scanning rc.exe and see what you get . . . .

    Other than that, try googling for the error. http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=...G=Search&meta=
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    when you try to delete rc.exe off your machine - you get "permission denied"?

    Do you have any antiviral software? Try scanning rc.exe and see what you get . . . .
    Hi, there's no rc.exe to delete or scan now, cos i uninstalled vc.net (it's only in the .. \ vc7 \ bin directory right?). when i try to install the ide again, windows refuses to copy rc.exe from the cd. but earlier the compiler refused to execute rc.exe so i think if tried to delete it, it'll give the error.

    it tried googling, there were some links. found that reinstalling the sdk or just rebooting will fix the problem. i did both but they didn't work. so i installed a 2nd copy of the os and installed vc.net in it and now ofcource it works now. but i still like to run the ide on the 1st os, so anyone know a solution please reply.

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    Quote Originally Posted by geek@02 View Post
    hi, today i was building a program with VC++.Net and suddenly the compiler game me the error PRJ0003 : Error spawning 'rc.exe'. so i loaded another project and tried to compile, but it gave the same error. then i restarted the computer but no good. then i tried to reinstalled the IDE, but the installer program refused to copy the 'rc.exe' into the computer. i tried to manually execute/copy rc.exe from the cd, but it says that i don't have 'appropriate permission' to execute/copy the file. but im on my machine with the administer account. anyone know what's going on here? i can't use vc.net without re.exe. please help!

    thanx.
    Do you use AVG?

    Is a false positive with rc.exe in AVG latest virus def file (in my 2003 install and on my install DVD).

    I found this from a search of the free forums at AVG (grisoft IIRC).

    I found that as I had quaranteened rc.exe already I could not just disable the houristic scanning to fix. I had to uninstall AVG, copy the rc.exe from the DVD.

    Luckily I use a different checker at work (my home system had the issue).
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    are you sure it's AVG? i use AVG with latest def files, but rc.exe is not in the quaranteen box?
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    Yes, very.

    rc.exe was not in mine either.

    Try uninstalling AVG (replace the rc.exe from your install disk) and see if the issue goes away, it did for me.
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    i just updated AVG def files (didn't unstalled it) and i can now run rc.exe manualy! Hope .net will work as well.
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