sysWOW32 in registry

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sysWOW32 in registry

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When looking for file stdole2.tlb (this is the reference for OLE Automation), I found 2 entries for it:
1 with c:\Windows\sysWOW64 and 1 in c:\Windows\sysWOW32, so i checked ifi had a folder c:\Windows\sysWOW32 and did not find one.
Maybe this is screwing up my graph with an error 2737 OLE file missing.

What do you think?

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Re: sysWOW32 in registry

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Are you sure that it said sysWOW32? As far as I know there is no such folder, nor should there be one. The default folder locations for stdole2.tlb on a PC with 64-bit Windows are C:\Windows\sysWOW64 and C:\Windows\System32.
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By the way, if the registry really refers to C:\Windows\sysWOW32\stdole2.tlb, you could try changing it to C:\Windows\System32\stdole2.tlb. I have no idea whether this would solve your problem, but it won't hurt.
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Re: sysWOW32 in registry

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You are quite right, it is system32.

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That's reassuring, but it also means that we still don't know what causes the problem...
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