title: Pygame in Windows: ImportError: DLL load failed
body: <p>I just installed PyGame 1.9.1 (onto an existing python 2.6.4). Python and it standard libraries work, however, there is a problem with python even being able to find the pygame modules (correctly).</p>
  
  <pre><code>Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "C:\foo\bar\firstGame.py", line 2, in &lt;module&gt;
      import pygame
    File "C:\python264\lib\site-packages\pygame\__init__.py", line 95, in &lt;module&gt;
      from pygame.base import *
  ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Why is is this happening? Googling yielded the following responses, which I have tried to no avail:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li><a href="http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread181323.html" rel="noreferrer">http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread181323.html</a> I have checked that indeed <code>base.pyd</code> can be found in <code>C:\python264\lib\site-packages\pygame</code></li>
  <li><a href="http://www.kelvinsthunderstorm.com/py2exe-and-pygame-dlls/" rel="noreferrer">http://www.kelvinsthunderstorm.com/py2exe-and-pygame-dlls/</a> The problem appears to be not that only select DLLs are missing, but rather that <em>all of them</em> are</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>Anyone out there fixed problems in win + pygame?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks</p>
  
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  <p>EDIT: more information added as requested:<br>
   - Windows version: Windows Vista (updated regularly)<br>
   - Installer used: Windows MSI installers<br>
   - Installed for: All users<br>
   - Number of files in <code>C:\python264\lib\site-packages\pygame</code>:  </p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>DLL : 14</li>
  <li>PYD : 34</li>
  <li>PY : 19</li>
  <li>PYC : 1</li>
  </ul>