Windows 7 compatibility - Au3Recorder

[Martineau]

I have just installed the AutoIt v3.3.6 package onto a new Windows 7 Ultimate (64) laptop.

All seems fine...I was given the option of installing AutoIt 64-bit modules as required.

A minor issue..attempts to run Au3Recoder and immediately a pop up window appears simply containing the text 'DLL Load failure'.

I have attempted to call Au3recorder from both the SciTE pulldown menu and also directly executing both Au3Recoder.exe and Au3Recoder64.exe but I still get the same error.

[AdmiralAlkex]

Hi and Welcome to the forum!

Sounds like a anti-virus issue. If you have any anti-virus, disable it and try again.

Edited March 13, 2010 by AdmiralAlkex

[Martineau]

I temporarily disabled Comodo Firewall and AVG 9.0 and rebooted.

Logged on under Administrator and Au3Recorder_x64.exe stll displays 'DLL Load Error'

However Au3Recorder.exe now works.

I reinstated both AVG and Comodo and can successfully manually execute Au3Recorder.exe, but Au3Recorder_x64.exe definitely still fails either invoked manually or via the SciTE Tools pull down menu

[Jos]

Does the directory ..\AutoIt3\Extras\Au3Record contain: ASWhook.dll ?

[Martineau]

Yes it does.

I assume if it didn't then the Au3Recorder.exe (32-Bit?) wouldn't run either?

[JohnOne]

I use win 7 32bit, comodo, avg 9.

Its all fine here, could be a 64bit prob.

[Jos]

I am running it with Win7 X64 and have no issues. Only when I rename the Dll I get the error after clicking record.

Jos

[litlmike]

I also have this issue. Running Windows 7 Enterprise 64-bit, Trend Micro Internet Security. Disabling AV did not resolve the issue. Tried running both Au3Record_x64.exe and Au3Record.exe; ASWhook.dll is in the following folder: "C:\Program Files (x86)\AutoIt3\Extras\Au3Record"

Any Suggestions?

[kenlau22]

This issue exists on Windows 7 x64 as well as Windows XP SP2 x64. I tried it on VMWare virtualized machines without any anti-virus, and it still show "DLL failed to load".

On Windows XP x86 machines however, the recorder function works fine. It looks definitely like a x64 bug.

[CaptainGadget]

Same problem here on Windows 7 (x64). I've tried it on my system after disabling AntiVirus

and I tried it on a VM with no AV installed.

In all attempts at installing, there is no shortcut created for AU3Record and manually

running Au3Record_x64.exe produces the "DLL load Failed" Error whenever I press the

'Click to Record' button.

[Montfrooij]

I am having the same problem....

Workaround for me is to manually start the C:\Program Files (x86)\AutoIt3\Extras\Au3Record\Au3Record.exe

It seems to work fine for me. (although I did not test it out thoroughly.)

If I will need the recorder more often, I will make a script that starts the 32b version

Edited July 28, 2010 by Montfrooij

[Pierre40a]

I am having the same problem....

Workaround for me is to manually start the C:\Program Files (x86)\AutoIt3\Extras\Au3Record\Au3Record.exe

It seems to work fine for me. (although I did not test it out thoroughly.)

If I will need the recorder more often, I will make a script that starts the 32b version

It seems that Windows 7 needs that the "path" variable contains the path to Au3Record_x64.exe.

Proceed as follows:

Control Panel -> System and Security -> System -> Remote Settings ->

System Properties -> Advanced -> Environment Variables .

Modify the "path" variable by adding ";C:\Program Files (x86)\AutoIt3\Extras\Au3Record" at the end of it.

DON'T ERASE ANYTHING AND CHECK THAT THE ";" CARACTER PRECEDES "C:\Program Files (x86)\AutoIt3\Extras\Au3Record" !!!

Now, you should be able to use Au3Record_x64.exe.

Regards.

Pierre

Edited November 21, 2010 by Pierre40a

[RBCC]

Hello all you nice people:

In my path statement is this line:

C:\Program Files (x86)\AMD APP\bin\x86_64;C:\Program Files (x86)\AMD APP\bin\x86;%SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem;%SYSTEMROOT%\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\Program Files (x86)\ATI Technologies\ATI.ACE\Core-Static;C:\Program Files\Windows Imaging\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Universal Extractor;C:\Program Files (x86)\Universal Extractor\bin;C:\Program Files (x86)\AutoIt3\Extras\Au3Record

In my: C:\Program Files (x86)\AutoIt3\Extras\Au3Record folder are the files :ASWhook.dll,Au3Record.exe and the Au3Record_x64.exe files.

I still can't get au3record_64.exe to Work on Windows 7 x64 Ultimate Service Pack 1. What am doing wrong? I am getting the unable to load dll. Does this work with Service Pack 1? Thank you, John

[TomDuDolan]

Sounds nooby, but run as administrator.

So, reinstall AU3 running the installer as Admin

then when running SciTE as admin.

If you've already done this, sorry.

[RBCC]

Did that still got it! I got unable to load dll! John

[exolon]

Neither adding the program directory to the path nor running it as administrator helped for me. Note that in the Au3Record_x64.exe binary, the DLL name is "ASWhook_x64.dll" (as a Unicode string at offset 13598 in my version).

Copying the 32-bit DLL and renaming to this fails, so presumably it needs a 64-bit compiled version. Not sure where to get this, but it's no biggie for me (the code generated by Au3Recorder looked a bit brittle).

Edited August 1, 2011 by exolon

[RBCC]

Still getting the dll load error message! John

[dleigh]

Has anyone gotten this to work? It's an issue for me too.

[KMistry]

This may be due to Win7 x 64 directory name. For some reason it does not like names with "(" or ")" - so C:\Program Files (x86)\AutoIt3 is not acceptable.

Try using C:\Program Files x86\AutoIt3 as the install directory and see what happens!!

Good luck.

[valsimot]

I have the same problem when trying to run Au3Record_x64.exe, but Au3Record.exe works without a problem (also on Win 7 x64).