This error maybe caused because of any of the following reasons
- You might have accidently deleted msvcr80.dll file from you system
- Registry problems of your system
- Your msvcr80.dll may got corrupt due to malfunctioning
- Some virus or malware infection in your C drive
Now that you know the causes of msvcr80.dll is missing error , next time you can be prepared with precautions but what to do with the error which already has took place? Well, you will find the solution here, No! Downloading the missing .dll files from websites online is a bad idea to fix these kinds of errors because these new DLL files may contain malwares which can harm your system even more.
Steps to fix msvcr80.dll is missing Error :
Step 1) You will have to uninstall and reinstall all the apple softwares installed in your computer in this order :
- Uninstall iTunes
- Uninstall Apple software update
- Uninstall Apple mobile device support
- Uninstall Bonjour
- Uninstall Apple application support
- Uninstall iCloud
Uninstall all these above programs first if you have installed them already.
Removal of these softwares will not lead to any deletion of your songs or playlists in iTunes so don’t worry about that but if you want you can take a backup of these files before uninstalling process. These are usually located in My Music folder in windows.
Step 2) After uninstalling all of above listed programs, you can now Restart your computer. In case , any of above program was unable to get uninstalled properly and generated some error , you can remove it manually from your C drive/Program files/*Program name*
Step 3) Use any registry booster or registry cleaner to make your system’s registry clean before reinstalling the softwares so that no previous entries remain in registry.
You may check my article where i shared 3 tools to Uninstall any Program Completely, Including registry of that program.
Step 4) Now you are all set to Reinstall apple softwares.
