Solve a problem with regsvr32

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Greetings to everybody.

I have to register a new recently acquired dll in and old PC with windows 7, 64 bits operating system.

I access the MS Dos prompt as administrator and run the following instruction:

regsvr32 c:\windows\syswow64\ProductosTemporales.tlb

and then I get the message (more or less; it´s in spanish) "Is possible the module .... is not compatible with the current version running; check if the module is compatible with a 32 or 64 regsvr32.exe"

I'm aware there are thousands of supporting pages in the internet, and I had search a lot thru google, but all the answers and procedures I´ve found up to this point had been useless; my problem still remains. Everything I had tried failed.

Can anybody give me some hints ? Is it possible the PC could be damaged ?

What I have tried:

Spent almost two days searching thru internet, but I just can´t find an answer

Posted 9-Jan-18 12:41pm

Miguel Altamirano Morales

Updated 9-Jan-18 20:15pm

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Dave Kreskowiak 9-Jan-18 19:23pm

You don't run REGSVR32 against a .TLB file. You do it on a .DLL file.

Miguel Altamirano Morales 10-Jan-18 11:37am

Thanks a lot for your reply, Dave. I´m glad to get in touch with you again.

The reason I want to register that .tlb file was because I did see it in the windows register of another PC, running the system at production level; In my PC, working in a testing area, I was receiving a VBA error telling me that this particular activex cannot create an object at runtime.

In my regedit I saw this activex was not registered so my first attempt to fix this was to register it using regsvr32, but now I know you can´t do that with those files, so I used regtlivb12 and it just worked fine.

But even that, this old Access 2010 application I'm working with, continues sending me the same error when I try to assign a value to one property of this library.

Well, so I suppose now it's a code error or anything apart from a windows registration, but I think it should be a matter of another question.

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OriginalGriff · Accepted Answer · 2018-01-09T20:14:00

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TLB is a file extension for Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) type library file format used by Microsoft Visual C++ software development program, part of Microsoft's ActiveX technologies.

What is TLB? What Opens a TLB? File Format List from WhatIs.com[^]

You don't register legacy controls with Regsvr32: you need regtlibv12.
See here: regasm - How to register a legacy typelib (.tlb) on Windows 7? - Stack Overflow[^]

Posted 9-Jan-18 20:14pm

OriginalGriff

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Miguel Altamirano Morales 10-Jan-18 11:38am

Thank you very much for your answer my friend. I already achieved what I want.

OriginalGriff 10-Jan-18 11:50am

You're welcome!