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The Case of RegSvr32 and the Haunted DLL
Last week I've resolved a simple "debugging" case by phone, and figured that it might benefit putting it online. Here's the approximate outline of the call: Customer: Sasha, we have a COM component registration that is failing because regsvr32 says it can't find the DLL. Myself: Where is it looking for that DLL? Customer: It doesn't matter where it's looking. We put the component in the System32 directory, but it still complained that it can't find it. Myself: [With...