HELP!

I’ve lost my orignal sony disks, so I had to install a clean version of XP Pro.

I have mosty everything working, but I am getting the dreaded errors from the lack of the snyutils.dll file.

Is there any place I can download that from?

Isn’t snyutils.dll one of the files bundled in with Sony Shared Library for most recent models?

Jef

The file is probably embedded in the Sony Shared Library installer.

At any rate, it’s easy to pluck from my X505.  Send me a PM with an email address.

You’ll need to save the file at C:\Program Files\Common Files\Sony Shared\Sony Utilities and register it in the system registry for it to work properly.

Jef

Hello -

The SnyUtils.dll file is generally embedded with the Sony Shared Library installation.

You can verify if this file is present by looking in Windows Explorer for:

C:\Program Files\Common Files\Sony Shared\Sony Utilities\SnyUtils.dll

If the file is there, it also needs to be properly registered in the System Registry.  This is generally in three places.  I’ll skip the uninstall information because it’s complicated and unnecessary to get the Sony Proprietary software to work.

The first required location is:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ App Paths

In this branch of the registry a string value needs to be present:

SnyUtils.dll

Under this heading there needs to be two values:

(default) with a string value of C:\Program Files\Common Files\Sony Shared\Sony Utilities\Snyutils.dll

and

Path with a string value of C:\Program Files\Common Files\Sony Shared\Sony Utilities (note the lack of the file name .. this is just the path to the file on the disk)

The second required location is:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ Software \ Sony Corporation \ Shared Info \ Shared DLLs

Under this heading there needs to be one value:

SNYUTILS.DLL with a string value of C:\Program Files\Common Files\Sony Shared\Sony Utilities\SnyUtils.dll

As I mention further up this thread, if you don’t have the SnyUtils.dll file, send me a private message with an email address and I’ll send the file to you.  You will have to make the above entries in your System Registry, using the Regedit utility.  Take a manual System Restore checkpoint prior to editing your registry, in case something goes horribly wrong.

Jef

Thanks for sending the dll file Jef, but I’ve followed all the instuctions and it still didn’t sort out the problem.  I guess it’s time to give up and send my laptop to Sony so they can get it working.  :(

[quote author=“Anonymous”][quote author=“jefn”]Hello -

If the file is there, it also needs to be properly registered in the System Registry.  This is generally in three places.  I’ll skip the uninstall information because it’s complicated and unnecessary to get the Sony Proprietary software to work.

Jef

Thanks Jeff but I still couldn’t get it to work.  I know I properly registered exactly what you told me but I get nothing.

Did you reboot after setting up the registry entries?

The registry gets parsed into memory at system startup and flushed to disk at shutdown.

Everything that loads at startup (such as Hotkey) will need the entries to be present in the registry when the system is started.

Jef

Also pay special attention to note the spaces in the path names in the above registry entries.

Jef