PDF creator MSCOMCTL.OCX fail

Tuesday, May 7. 2013

My choice for creating PDFs is PDF creator from pdfforge.org. The price is right (free), all the functionality I need is there, operation is robust and source code is available.

However, something weird happens occasionally after a new version is updated. Printing fails with an error stating that MSCOMCTL.OCX has failed. The failure is strange, as it is simply about ActiveX-component registration that has been lost. Also fix is simple, run following commands as administrator:

cd C:\Windows\SysWOW64
regsvr32 MSCOMCTL.OCX
regsvr32 MSCOMCT2.OCX

Then operations continue as expected.

Note that the directory is 32-bit on 64-bit Windows.

by Jari Turkia in Software at 19:28 | Comment (1) | Share in LinkedIn

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Work!!
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#1 Baldo on 2015-11-17 11:49 (Reply)

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