msvcrt.dll cause Internet Explorer 9 to crash

  10:42 AM    Santosh

Today my Internet Explorer crashes within a 2 seconds after opening a internet explorer. My laptop has Windows 7 Professional with SP1 installed.
The msvcrt.dll is a runtime installation dll for windows. Obviously, internet explorer needs it to run. This can be caused by many things like a missing or corrupted file and also by registry corruption.

In Windows 7 event manager is shows below error log,

Application: iexplore.exe
Version:9.0.8112.16421
Module: msvcrt.dll
Version:7.0.7600.16385
Exception: 0xc0000005
Displacement: 0x00009c7f
Process ID: 0×964
Application Path: C:Program FilesInternet Exploreriexplore.exe
Module path: C:Windowssystem32msvcrt.dll

After searching few blog I disabled all IE add-ons & changed the IE settings to defaults but no Luck.

The easiest way to fix is to uninstall internet explorer 9 and then install it back either to windows update or by downloading again. This should replace the msvcrt.dll in your system. To uninstall internet explorer 9 try the following:

  • click on start

  • control panel

  • uninstall a program

  • on left hand side column, click on view installed updates

  • scroll down until you find Internet Explorer 9

  • click on Uninstall

  • restart if needed


Once your computer restarts, visit windows updates and make sure to select internet explorer 9 for download/installation. You can also download it & install manually from below URl,

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-CA/internet-explorer/products/ie/home