
If you're trying to call regsvr32 on a 32 bit plugin though, that isn't going to work at all in a 64 bit OS. You may find however that by installing Sonar, it installs the required libraries in any case. It just adds them so both versions are then available. VS2015, when the current OS has VS2017 ) does not overwrite the current VS2017 redists. Installing an earlier version of the redistributables (e.g. It's the redistributable libraries you need. There's a huge difference between installing Visual Studio and installing the Visual Studio redistributable libraries. If anyone finds a solution that doesn't involve reprogramming Windows, please share. Resolution To resolve this issue, follow these steps: Verify that the following files are in the following directory: imageviewer2.ocx imagethumbnailcp.ocx officecontrol.ocx. One or more DLLs may be the wrong version. I tried running as Administrator with no luck. The login user on this machine has no rights to write the register. Sigh.įunny thing, the latest BandLab Cakewalk installed and works great on my laptop, which has all the latest Windows updates. If you have a 16-bit control, you should run regsvr instead of regsvr32. I'm pretty invested in Windows, so I'm not going throw out an empty threat of moving to Apple, but I for sure see why some folks get tired of these kinds of issues with Windows. These controls come in 16-bit and 32-bit forms, with 32-bit being the most common. They update Windows for security reasons, so I'm going to play it safe and not undo their updates.

I'm not willing to risk my system by rolling back Visual Studio or using a solution suggested 10 years ago.

#Register ocx files install#
I'm unable to install on my new Windows machine because of the "Unable to register the DLL/OCX: RegSvr32 failed with exit code 0x3" situation. Right click on the cmd.exe file and select Run as administrator. To register the ActiveX control, go to C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe in Windows Explorer. I guess it is back to the last version of Sonar that I bought. Next you need to register some files with Windows.
