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Why can't I install this DLL via Regsvr32 /i?

November 17, 2011 Nov 17, 2011 11/17/11

Raymond Chen

A customer asked for help installing a particular DLL. They ran the command but got the error "SomeDll.dll was loaded, but the DllInstall entry point was not found. This file can not be registered." A DLL needs to be specifically written to be used with the command. You can't just grab some random DLL and expect to work. As we saw last ...