The Runtime Error 48 code can have several underlying causes. The notification usually appear when there is an interruption in a sequence of components when running MS Office applications like IE, Word, Outlook, FrontPage, Excel, PowerPoint. User may also receive the ‘Error in loading dll’ message when launching utilities such as Wise Installer, MSXML 6, Access 97, Access 2000, ADO, Visual Basic Studio 6.0, Activeboards, ActiveX Visual Basic 6 and Hangaroo. Runtime errors is mostly the result from redundant registry entries, its therefore important to restore and fix cluttered and corrupted registry keys to get rid of runtime error 48 and other PC errors.