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Guybrush Threepwood
Guybrush Threepwood

Reputation: 1891

dllregisterserver in iviewers failed

When I try to run Oleview I get an error saying that DllRegisterServer failed for IViewer.dll (sorry I wanted to post a screenshot but I can't until I get 10 reputation =p)

Oleview will run but like the msg says, you can't look at interfaces which is exactly what I want to do.

I found my iviewer.dll and ran regsvr32 on it just fine. So I'm not sure whats up.

Upvotes: 73

Views: 19426

Answers (2)

Larrys S. Smith
Larrys S. Smith

Reputation: 151

You only need to run it the first time as admin. Make sure you open a tlb file though, so it registers IVIEWERS.DLL as COM server into the registry. After that you can run it as a normal user. This is explained in the Windows SDK readme, by the way.

Upvotes: 14

Guybrush Threepwood
Guybrush Threepwood

Reputation: 1891

Ack, should have done more due diligence. Found this on msdn which explains that you need to run Oleview as admin. Stupid UAC.

I tried it out and running as admin works for me.

Upvotes: 116

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