429 ActiveX component can't create object
Unfortunately I have a client that insists on using an old copy of Crystal Reports v8 on a W7 workstation. We have several machines where this works fine but they were all started back in older times and evolved as Windows evolved. This is a new computer with an old copy of Crystal. Everything appears to install properly but when we go to run Crystal we get '429 ActiveX component can't create object'. I have registered all the usual dlls but nothing has helped. Aside from running sysinternals is there anything else I can try to track down this error? Client is not willing to pay for much more time to resolve this and our response is that they should not be using software that is so outdated so we are at loggerheads.
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When you install Crystal did you right click on setup.exe and use "run as administrator" ? Crystal 8 has weird setup , which may not start as administrator and includes some html pages which might be blocked by the security especially on 64 bit machines. You may need also to turn off UAC http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/turn-user-account-control-on-off#1TC=windows-7
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UAC was turned off and Run As Adminstrator was used. My next step was to uninstall and reinstall MS Office.
ProcessMonitor would probably let you identify the problem. See: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645.aspx
Error is triggered when you start Crystal 8 Designer? Or when you load a report? If report, perhaps it's a missing UFL issue.
Does the customer need Crystal 8 to design reports or just to run them? If just to run them, consider installing one of the free/inexpensive 3rd-party viewers listed at http://kenhamady.com/bookmarks.html
Error is triggered when you start Crystal 8 Designer? Or when you load a report? If report, perhaps it's a missing UFL issue.
Does the customer need Crystal 8 to design reports or just to run them? If just to run them, consider installing one of the free/inexpensive 3rd-party viewers listed at http://kenhamady.com/bookmarks.html
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The users just need to run reports. I will check out the third party viewers.
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These viewers will not work because the client has a product that uses Crystal to render the reports. So there are parameters that are passed from the program to Crystal. This is why I was thinking of uninstalling Office and reinstalling because this product is heavily dependent on Windows and Office components.
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I have advised the software vendor of this and they advised us to uninstall and reinstall their runtime engine. They claim 99% of the time this corrects this issue. Looks like we are one of the lucky 1%. I have warned the client if they insist on tracking this down it is going to cost big time because we get into sysinternals and looking at page after page of log file trying to find the offending dll(s).
Is it 64 or 32 bits machine ?
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64 bit running a 32 bit program.
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Thank you. They will be in tomorrow so I will connect and check it out.
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Thnaks