Thursday, August 25, 2011

Missing COM components in DCOM Config

If you are running on a 64-bit OS and recently installed such things as Office 2010, you will notice “Microsoft Word 97 - 2003 Document” is missing.  This is because Office is a 32-bit application so it does not show up in the native 64-bit DCOM Config window.  The trick is to launch the MMC in 32-bit mode, then add the “Component Services” snap-in. Run “mmc -32” from a Start > Run, then you should see your 32-bit COM components.

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5 comments:

  1. AnonymousJanuary 18, 2013 at 8:16 AM

    Thank you very very very much, that's the advice i needed!

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  2. MikeJanuary 18, 2013 at 8:24 AM

    So glad it helped!!

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  3. UnknownAugust 5, 2013 at 5:59 AM

    Thanks!

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  4. AbhaiSeptember 11, 2016 at 10:17 AM

    I am facing issue with Visio 2007 , I tried this way also neither in 32 nor in 64 , I cant see it in component services.
    OS is Windows 2012 R2

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  5. MikeSeptember 11, 2016 at 1:19 PM

    Sounds like you may have another issue going on...

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