# Notes to self about re-learning Maya (ignore this)

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**Created:** [January 29, 2021, 9:06am UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/notes-to-self-about-re-learning-maya-ignore-this/1281543 "2021-01-29T09:06:17Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 6, 2021, 8:37am UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/notes-to-self-about-re-learning-maya-ignore-this/1281543/4 "2021-02-06T08:37:55Z")

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I have maya installed but Arnold is not automatically available. I opened the Plug-in Manager window and found mtoa.mll and clicked Loaded and got this error: “C:/Program Files/Autodesk/Maya2020/scripts/others/pluginWin.mel line 317: initializePluginfunction failed (mtoa)”

I clicked autoload and restarted maya and saw the same error when the Maya window opened along with this other one:

“// Warning: file: C:/Program Files /Autodesk/Maya2020/scripts/others/supportRendereres.mel line 67: The renderer “arnold” used by this scene, is not currently available. The “mayaSoftware” renderer will be used intead…”

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I downloaded the actual Arnold installer and when trying to install it failed with these messages:

pitreg.exe - System Error - The code execution cannot proceed because VCRUNTIME140\_1.dll was not found. Reinstalling the program may fix this problem.

LicensingUpdater.exe - System Error - The code execution cannot proceed because VCRUNTIME140\_1.dll was not found. Reinstalling the program may fix this problem.

And now when I try to run Maya I get this error:

maya.exe - System Error - The code execution cannot proceed because VCRUNTIME140\_1.dll was not found. Reinstalling the program may fix this problem.

This makes 3 years in a row I’ve installed Maya in January and by February I wasn’t able to use it for some fucking reason.

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