Registering a DLL (Microsoft's capicom.dll) issue

[Andrew]

Hi,

I have been searching on google groups for someone who may have seen
this error before. Many posts on this error, but I don't seem to find
a solution.

I am trying to register capicom.dll, which is from Microsoft, which
contains encryption functions.

I am receiving the following error msgs:

'This application has failed to start because MSSIGN32.dll was not
found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem.'

'LoadLibrary ("c:\capicom.dll") failed. GetLastError returns
0x0000007e'

I have found that my machine has the MSSIGN32.dll located in the
c:\windows\system32 directory. I wonder why the MSSIGN32.dll can't be
found.

I am running regsvr32.exe from the c:\windows\system32 directory. I
copied the capicom.dll into c:\windows\system32 and try to register the
dll, but no luck. Here is the command I executed:

regsvr32 c:\windows\system32\capicom.dll

Any ideas or approaches to solve this problem?

Thanks! Andrew

[Saleh Matani]

OS ? SP ?

try to register the MSSIGN32.dll before !

regsvr32 c:\windows\system32\MSSIGN32.dll

if it dose not work the take a look to the Event log

Saleh Matani

[Andrew]

Sorry,

OS Windows XP. SP2 with all patches released.

I was successful in registering MSSIGN32.dll in the
c:\windows\system32\ folder.

But when I run regsvr32 for the capicom.dll I get the same error
message as before.

regsvr32 can't find the MSSIGN32.dll....

Not sure why. I will look in the event log for any more information.

What is also strange is when I search for MSSIGN32.dll using
Microsoft's search tool in windows explorer, it does not find the
MSSIGN32.dll, even though I can see it in windows explorer.

Strange.

[Saleh Matani]

it's normal not to finde some files with the XP search (its not working
as well!)

it works by me and i have the CAPICOM 2.0.1.0 and the
MSSIGN32.dll Version : 5.131.2600.0 (xpclient.010817-1148)

will you look to the Version that you have !

have you deactivated any Service manually ?

Saleh Matani