Plugin suddenly stopped working

Puzzled to find that a function of IrfanView I use many times a day is not working this morning. Hitting F12 should pop-up a frequently used tool window. I now get the error message:

Can't load Plugln: "PAlNT.DLL" !
Please install or update Pluglns from IrfanView homepage!


Re-installing (several times) made no difference. Nor a fresh download of irfanview_plugins_444_setup.exe. Nor a restart of Windows 10 Pro.

Looking in C:\Program Files (x86)\IrfanView\Plugins I was also a bit surprised to find that Paint.dll was not present. But nor was it in my nightly or weekly backup of that folder. Which implies that perhaps it's not supposed to be present - adding to the puzzle. It is present in the 64-bit IrfanView version, and works properly. I followed a recommendation to use the 32-bit version because more plug-ins are supported!

Anyone know what may be going on here please?

Terry, East Grinstead, UK
 
Sorted.

Over in the alt.comp.freeware newsgroup I had this reply:
"Paint.dll is one of a small number of plugins which is installed by
iview444_setup.exe itself, and not by irfanview_plugins_444_setup.exe.

I suggest you re-install IrfanView itself (iview444_setup.exe)."

Duly fixed.

(That error message is inaccurate.)

Terry, East Grinstead, UK
 
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