2.46 crashs on start up but 2.45 doesn't HELP!!!

just like mt title says 2.46 crashs after it shows the splash and I downloaded the mircosoft c++ patch thing but NOTHING!!! What did I do?

What is your OS ?
It appears that Me and XP aren’t supported anymore…

2K why would they stop XP if it’s better then Vista?

XP is most definitely still supported (as you said, alienkid10, there is no way that they would stop supporting XP, since most of the windows users here use it).
Windows 95 and ME don’t work anymore (official), but I guess it doesn’t with 2000 either. If you go to blendernation, there is a post with a link to a compilation that works on 95 and ME (and probably 2000).

it might be a bad .dll I will redownload in a min.

EDIT it works now.

I just tried 2.46 on a new build of Vista Ultimate and it would not work. It claimed I was missing msvc7.1.dll or something like that (don’t remember the exact text of the message).

It seems a lot of things don’t work on Vista.