Office - [solved] The module FM20.DLL was loaded but the call to DllRegisterServer failed with error code 0x8002801c

Asked By misph1re

24-May-07 01:43 PM

I am posting this as I could not find the solution myself using google, and needed to contact Microsoft for the solution, and was a royal pain in the ***.



If you find this solution helpful, then mission accomplished.



When running Office 2003 on Windows Vista, and trying to install an office update or do a repair installation, I received the following error:



Error 1904. Setup cannot register module C:\Windows\system32\FM20.DLL. If you click 'Cancel'

or 'Ignore', run Setup again and re-install or repair your Office installation. If problem persists, contact your Information Technology department for assistance.



I found a possible solution online, to do the following:



At a command prompt using administrative credentials, run the following command:



REGSVR32 FM20.DLL



After running this command, I received the following error:



The module "FM20.DLL" was loaded but the call to DllRegisterServer failed with error code 0x8002801c



No matter what I tried, I could not get past this DLL registration error.



Here is what Microsoft sent me to fix this:



#1 Download the Subinacl.msi program from Microsoft's website:



http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e8ba3e56-d8fe-4a91-93cf-ed6985e3927b&displaylang=en#AffinityDownloads



#2 Copy the following text in a .bat file and run it with administrative credentials. It may take a while to finish. You will get a "Press any key to continue" message once it completes:



@echo off

subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE /grant=administrators=f

subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_CURRENT_USER /grant=administrators=f

subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT /grant=administrators=f

subinacl /subdirectories %SystemDrive% /grant=administrators=f

subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE /grant=system=f

subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_CURRENT_USER /grant=system=f

subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT /grant=system=f

subinacl /subdirectories %SystemDrive% /grant=system=f

@Echo =========================

@Echo Finished.

@Echo =========================

@pause



#3 Try and register FM20.dll again, and it should succeed:



REGSVR32 FM20.DLL



Now the errors should go away.

11-Nov-08 01:02 PM

Thank you for this.  I have been looking for a solution to this problem
for weeks. It worked for me.


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11-Nov-08 06:20 PM

Another leach from an usenet server. I wish they would stop this

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11-Nov-08 08:13 PM

What the hell is that supposed to mean Peter?  I found this post with a
Google search and it worked for me so I figured I would give a thank
you. If I did something wrong please be more specific and I will avoid
it in the future.

Peter Foldes;4073469 Wrote:


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11-Nov-08 08:29 PM

I do not know who you are thanking but for sure it is nobody here. You =
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