PE7 startup problem : MSVCR80.DLL

Hello to everybody,
first i'd like to say thanks for reading this posting.
I'm new here and my first posting is about a problem with my Premiere Elements 7. Unfortunately...
I'm not a "professional" user of PE 7, i'm just doing some editing of home videos from time to time
and the program worked fine for me til 2 week ago.
I know, the system I'm using is rather basic for video editing but it has always worked so I don't understand
why it's not working anymore.
My sytem here is a
AMD Athlon 64x2 4200
Windows XP home SP3, 3GB RAM
Nvidia GeForce 7300LE 128MB,
onboard Realtec HD Sound
C:-Drive is a IDE 80GB HD (with windows and premiere Elements 7 installed to (34GB free space)
D:-Drive is the working drive to store any other data (500GB SATA HD).
The system is up to date with all windows updates and I also have installed the newest drivers for sound and video card.
I haven't used the PE 7 for a couple of months but when I started the program 2 weeks ago I got an error message that the
program has crashed cause there's a problem with MSVCR80.dll.
The program starts to load normal, I can see the "splash"-screen  (I thinks that's the name adobe calls that window) and I can
see that the program loads all the plugins til "Wave_Warp.AEX". I few seconds later the program crashs with an error message
that there is a problem with the module MSVCR80.DLL (Modver:8.0.50727.4053 offset: 00008aa0).
I searched the knowledgebase to fix the problem and found some articles retated to this fault and followed all the instructions
but without success.
This is what I have done so far:
Updated the Realtec Sounddriver and Nvidia video driver to the latest version. => No success
trashed the preference files = no success
uninstalled PE7 and installed it again => no success
uninstalled all Adobe products on the computer and installed them again => no success
uninstalled all Adobe products again, cleaned the Windows registy and installed again => no success
made a fallback to the old Realtec and Nvidia drivers I'm sure the program worked with = no success
i learned by searching the net to find a solution for my problem that msvcr80.dll has something to do with
VC++ 2005. So uninstalled all the VC++ 2005 related updates on the the computer and reinstalled them.
=> again without success.
I copied the MSVCR80.DLL from the PE7 CD to the PE7 program directory and also to the system32 directory
=> again without success.
I looked at the PE7 manifest file and noticed that the entry there points to a MSVCR80 file version ending with ".762"
but the error message shows that the fault comes from a MSVCR80 version ending with ".4053".
I searched the /Wsxs directory and I found out that there are about 5 differnt versions of MSVCR80.DLL installed.
I have no idea why the manifest file points to ".762" but the ".4053" is loaded.
Now I'm at the end of my knowledge and dont know what to try next.
I guess  a complete new installation of Windows would fix the problem but I really dont like this idea.
Maybe you guys here have another solution to fix the problem.
Any help would be very welcome!
Best regards
Jens

Thanks for the thorough post, Jens. Unfortunately problems with Premiere Elements 7 on an XP machine are virtually unheard of, so I'm not sure hwo much more we can suggest, since you can't even get a Welcome Screen.
First, go to Windows Update and click Custom to ensure you have even the non-critical  updats.
Then to go Apple.com and download the latest Quicktime.
Then give your C drive a good defragmenting. 34 gig is enough free space -- but that free space frags prettty easily and, when it does, the program can't find the large chunks of space it needs.
If all of that fails to fix things, the only possible answer is that you've got a program conflict of some kind or some kind of spyware or malware at work. And that can be very difficult to troubleshoot. (If you right-click on your Windows Task Bar with no programs open and open your Task Manager, how many processes does it show running? It shouldn't be as many as 50.)
By the way, if you'll do a Google search on that driver, you'll see it's a problem with Windows, not Premiere Elements. See if this article helps.
http://www.instant-registry-fixes.org/why-do-i-keep-receiving-msvcr80dll-missing-errors/

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