title: Visual Studio 2008 give error of component not found
body: <p>I'm been using VS 2008 "forever". Rebooted yesterday and now I get an error that says a component can not be found. This is on the devenv.exe executable and is the first thing that is displayed. </p>
  
  <p>I've reinstalled, I've uninstalled and installed VS2008 twice and still get the same error.</p>
  
  <p>Searching on the net shows people having a similar problem with a missing alt dll, but I don't have VC++ loaded and that dll is not missing. Have ran the depends.exe and the only missing dll is dwmapi.dll, which isn't even needed on a Windows XP os. Tried using /safemode and it still fails. Using /log flag shows nothing too.</p>
  
  <p>I need some more ideas or a way to find out what exactly is missing.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks Dwight</p>
  
  <p><strong>edit:</strong> the error was that atl90.dll was missing in one of the C:\WINDOWS\WinSxS\x86_Microsoft.VC90.atl* directories.</p>
  
  <p>Don't even hav vc++ added.</p>