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P: Headlights.dll error

Community Beginner ,
Oct 27, 2021 Oct 27, 2021

After downloading the new version 11.0 of LRC, it will not start. I get an error message: The procedure entry point SetThreadDescription point could not be located in the dynamic link library ......... Headlights.dll.

Have googled for solution and have unistalled, restarted and installed again - no luck!

Please help.

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Adobe Employee , Dec 13, 2021 Dec 13, 2021

Updates to the Adobe Photography Products were released today and contain a fix for this issue. Please install the update via your Creative Cloud Desktop App or your respective App Store. 

 

Note: 

You may need to refresh the Creative Cloud App for desktop software to show an update available.  ([Ctrl/Cmd]+[Alt/Opt]+ [ R ])

For Mobile downloads, it may take several days for the update to appear in your respective App Stores.

 

Thank you for your patience. 

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Adobe Employee , Oct 28, 2021 Oct 28, 2021

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Adobe Employee , Oct 27, 2021 Oct 27, 2021

Some of our customers have reported success clearing this error by using the the Adobe Cleaner Tool during their reinstall. 

https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/kb/cc-cleaner-tool-installation-problems.html 

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Adobe Employee ,
Oct 27, 2021 Oct 27, 2021

Try following this procedure in this order and see if it cures the issue:

 

This procedure works for both Lightroom Classic and Lightroom Desktop.

If you are using Lightroom Desktop it can change the location of your local storage. Please review this setting after resetting preferences. 

 

Reset Procedure:

1. Close Lightroom.

2. Hold down [Alt/Opt]+[Shift] while restarting Lightroom.

3. Overwrite the Preferences when prompted by the dialog.

4. Close Lightroom.

5. Restart Lightroom.

 

Then

 

Clean Lightroom Install Procedure

  1. Close Lightroom
  2. Restart the computer
  3. Use the Adobe Creative Cloud App to uninstall Lightroom
  4. Restart the computer
  5. Install Lightroom via the Creative Cloud App without launching any other programs.
  6. Restart the computer
  7. Launch Lightroom
  8. Wait 5 minutes
Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org
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Community Beginner ,
Oct 27, 2021 Oct 27, 2021

Hi,



I tried your solution, but it did not work.

As soon as I follow step 2 of the Reset Procedure, the error message pops
up.

I then proceeded to do the "Clean Lightroom Install Procedure", but also did
not work.

Any other suggestions?

How do I go back to previous version of LRC?



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Community Beginner ,
Oct 27, 2021 Oct 27, 2021

I tried your solution, but it did not work.

As soon as I follow step 2 of the Reset Procedure, the error message pops up.

I then proceeded to do the “Clean Lightroom Install Procedure”, but also did not work.

Any other suggestions?

How do I go back to previous version of LRC?

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Community Expert ,
Oct 27, 2021 Oct 27, 2021

Please see here if you'll go back to a previous version.

https://helpx.adobe.com/download-install/using/install-previous-version.html

 

In this document it will be shown for Photoshop, but it's the same for Lightroom.

 

My System: Intel i7-8700K - 64GB RAM - NVidia Geforce RTX 3060 - Windows 11 Pro 24H2 -- LR-Classic 14 - Photoshop 26 - Nik Collection 7 - PureRAW 4 - Topaz PhotoAI 3
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Community Beginner ,
Oct 27, 2021 Oct 27, 2021

Thanks Axel,

It worked and at least now I can keep on working on my photos with the previous version.

Hope to download v11 soon, but it seems there are (a few) bugs they need to sort first.

Thanks!

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Adobe Employee ,
Oct 27, 2021 Oct 27, 2021

Can you supply your installed Windows 10 Version number?

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Community Beginner ,
Oct 27, 2021 Oct 27, 2021

Windows 10 Enterprise 2016 LTSB, updated to version 2021-10

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Adobe Employee ,
Oct 27, 2021 Oct 27, 2021

Some of our customers have reported success clearing this error by using the the Adobe Cleaner Tool during their reinstall. 

https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/kb/cc-cleaner-tool-installation-problems.html 

Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org
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Adobe Employee ,
Oct 28, 2021 Oct 28, 2021

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New Here ,
Nov 06, 2021 Nov 06, 2021

Same problem, Windows 10 ltsb 1607. Adobe Cleaner Tool did not help.

Had to roll back to LrC 10.4.

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New Here ,
Nov 21, 2021 Nov 21, 2021

Bonjour,

 

Suite à un changement de PC j'ai installé lightroom sur ce dernier, l'installation se fait sans problème mais à l'ouverture de l'application, j'ai un message point d'entrée introuvable, voir copie d'écran. 

Quelle est la solution ?

 

Merci de votre aide.

 

Fred

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LEGEND ,
Nov 21, 2021 Nov 21, 2021
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Community Beginner ,
Nov 22, 2021 Nov 22, 2021

Sorry, no solution yet. Nothing works.

Will need to wait for update??

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Explorer ,
Nov 23, 2021 Nov 23, 2021

Same problem here also. I was able to update LR to v.11 with no problems on my home computer, but could not do it on my work computer, which are both Windows 10. It downloads fine but gives me the "...Headlights..." error when trying to start LR.

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Community Beginner ,
Nov 26, 2021 Nov 26, 2021

Still no joy! Lightroom issued an update version 11.0.1 (all bugs fixed!??), but still the same "headlights.dll" problem.

Had to revert to version 10.4 to work.

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Community Beginner ,
Dec 10, 2021 Dec 10, 2021

Hi,

We are 1 update later and still I can not use the new LRC. Will not download because of the headlights.dll error.

Is there someone with a solution please?

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Adobe Employee ,
Dec 13, 2021 Dec 13, 2021

Updates to the Adobe Photography Products were released today and contain a fix for this issue. Please install the update via your Creative Cloud Desktop App or your respective App Store. 

 

Note: 

You may need to refresh the Creative Cloud App for desktop software to show an update available.  ([Ctrl/Cmd]+[Alt/Opt]+ [ R ])

For Mobile downloads, it may take several days for the update to appear in your respective App Stores.

 

Thank you for your patience. 

Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org
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Community Beginner ,
Dec 13, 2021 Dec 13, 2021

Thank you Rikk!!

It is working now - bug fixed - and I can also now enjoy the new masking features.

Thank you for the fixes.

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Explorer ,
Dec 14, 2021 Dec 14, 2021

The update worked!! Thank you!

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New Here ,
Dec 17, 2021 Dec 17, 2021
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Fixed! Thank you very much!

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