DAMBE for Windows

Please cite:

Xia X. 2018. DAMBE7: New and improved tools for data analysis in molecular biology and evolution. Molecular Biology and Evolution 35:1550–1552.

Installation instructions:

1. The installation instruction here is for Windows, but you can also run DAMBE on Linux or Macintosh computers.
2. If you have installed a previous version of DAMBE, please uninstalled it before installing the new version by clicking

   Start|Settings|Control Panel|Add/Remove Programs

   and proceed to remove DAMBE completely. Check C:\Windows\System32 to make sure that DllWithDialog.DLL is deleted (and manually delete it if it is not) before installing a new version of DAMBE.

3. Please download one of the following installation packages and click it to install DAMBE. There will be a number of DNA sequence files in the installation directory. Note that I have used different file extension (or type) to designate different data files for different programs. It is always a good practice to use one particular file type to designate one particular file format.
• DAMBEXP for Windows XP
• DAMBE for Windows Vista/7/8/10 (Support NeXML)
4. Tips for computer managers of teaching labs

Some of DAMBE's functions do not work with files in OneDrive. You should copy the files to a local folder and read the files into DAMBE from the local folder.

You may encounter error messages such as "Error number 339 component xxxyyy#.ocx or one of its dependencies is not correctly registered – a file is missing or invalid") (where the bolded file may be comdlg32.ocx, comctl32.ocx, msinet.ocx, richtx32.ocx, mscomct2.ocx, etc.). If this happens, follow the procedures below:

1. If the error message involves mscomctl.ocx, or comctl32.ocx. Download Update_mscomctl.ocx_comctl32.ocx.exe and install it.
2. If the error message involves comdlg32.ocx, comctl32.ocx, mscomct2.ocx, richtx32.ocx, msinet.ocx, etc.
• Check if comdlg32.ocx, comctl32.ocx, mscomct2.ocx, richtx32.ocx, msinet.ocx, etc., are in the C:\Windows\System32 directory (for 32-bit Windows) or the C:\Windows\SysWow64 directory (for 64-bit Windows). If not, download comctl32.ocx, comdlg32.ocx, mscomct2.ocx, richtx32.ocx or msinet.ocx to C:\Windows\System32 (32-bit Windows) or C:\Windows\SysWow64 (64-bit Windows). You may need to download to another directory and then copy them to C:\Windows\System32 or C:\Windows\SysWow64 directory. If they are already there, leave them there and DON’T copy over them.
• Run cmd.exe with Administrative privilege (e.g., right-clicking cmd.exe and click "Run as Administrator"). Once you see the command prompt, change directory to C:\Windows\System32 (for 32-bit Windows) or C:\Windows\SysWow64 (for 64-bit Windows), and type at the command line:

regsvr32.exe /u OCX_File_that_caused_Error.OCX (e.g., mscomct2.ocx)
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For 64-bit Windows (Note that the full path is needed even if you are in the SysWOW64 directory.)

regsvr32.exe C:\Windows\SysWow64\OCX_File_that_caused_Error.OCX



For 32-bit Windows (Note that the full path is needed even if you are in the System32 directory.)

regsvr32.exe C:\Windows\System32\OCX_File_that_caused_Error.OCX