Windows Shell Common Dll

[Guest]

I need Windows Shell Common Dll to open sapi.cpl. How do I get this dll?
I am trying to use a telephoney system and my microphone doesn't work.
In the control panel the speech icon is broke and I think I have narrowed the
problem down to not having this dll installed. When I click the speech icon
it reads:An exception occurred while trying to
run"shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL"C:\Program
Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Speech\sapi.cpl",Speech"


I was told to search the registry and delete sapi.cpl. What good would this
do?

I have done this to add speech recognition
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/...home/using/productdoc/en/input_speech_add.asp

Any suggestions? Thanks.

 

[Kelly]

Ah, you added info. Always helpful!

From a previous post:

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Q.

I selected the audio input button in the Speech Applet and changed it from
the use preferred audio input device to use this audio input device and had
the only thing in the list selected. When I hit apply in the Applet I
received the error: "An exception occurred while trying to run "shell32.dll,
Control_RunDLL "c:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft
Shared\Speech\sapi.cpl", Speech".

A.

I just did a load on two WinXP Pro machines. They had SAPI 5.0 installed on
them from an Office XP installation. The installer I made with the merge
modules and Visual Installer 1.1 properly updated both machines to SAPI 5.1
without any issues.

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[Guest]

Maybe I don't need this Windows Shell Common Dll in the sense I thought i
did. I don't have the programs listed on the link below. Can I fix sapi.cpl
another way? I do have microsoft outlook 2000 small business, but I don't
think this helps.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/downloads/tools/vsi11/download.aspx