PPT2000: Error Message: "Failed to Connect to the NetShow Client DLL" Starting Online Broadcast (224471)


The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft PowerPoint 2000
This article was previously published under Q224471

ERROR MESSAGE

When you start an online broadcast in PowerPoint 2000, you may receive the following error:
Failed to connect to the NetShow client DLL. Make sure it's registered correctly.
NOTE: Microsoft Office 2000 has built-in functionality that allows you to get more information about difficult-to-troubleshoot alerts or error messages. If you want to enable this functionality for this and other error messages in Microsoft Office 2000, please download the Microsoft Office 2000 Customizable Alerts file from the Microsoft Office Update Web site at the following address:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=8FBEE1D3-C5BB-4A36-A2F7-DC63DE2A818C

NOTE: If you reached this article by clicking the Web Info button in an error message, you already have Customizable Alerts enabled.

CAUSE

NSLITE.DLL or NSLSVPS.DLL may not be registered correctly in Windows registry.

THINGS TO TRY

On the Help menu in PowerPoint, click Detect and Repair.

MORE INFORMATION

For more information on Online Broadcasting in PowerPoint, please see the following page on the Microsoft World Wide Web site:

Web Workshop - Presentation Broadcasting in PowerPoint 2000

For additional information about troubleshooting Online Broadcasting, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

229951 PPT2000: Troubleshooting Online Broadcasting

Modification Type:MinorLast Reviewed:12/2/2005
Keywords:kbdownload kbconf kberrmsg kbprb KB224471
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