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Chris,

You can try reinstalling the NT SP5, or upgrading NT to SP6.  Sometimes 
programs will include common Windows DLL files, and screw up all other 
programs on your system.

Jim Alger

 >Good morning,

 >I am stuck on a TS2000i install issue, and to date Omega's techs don't have
 >an answere short or reinstalling NT.  Perhaps someone might have another
 >idea.

 >I installed the SP3 CD on Win NT4 SP5 on PII400 w/192M on its own hard drive
 >(D). Installed DBC broadcast/cable datafeed.

 >Installing the SP3 CD, all went well except I go an error message as
 >follows:

 >Files Failed to Self Register...
 >    C:\Winnt\system32\comcat.dll

 >The file exists in that directory, though its date and I did a registry
 >search and it did appear in the registry.  Omega says that this is problem
 >is related to the one application problem I have seen to date -- in the
 >charting/workspace application, the File/New command does not have the
 >normal icons present -- to create chart, quote page, browser, etc.  The only
 >one there is to create a new workspace.

 >Omega suggested manually registering the file, by running  regsvr32
 >c:\winnt\system32\comcat.dll.  When I did this, I got the following
 >message...

 >C:\winnt\system32\comcat.dll was loaded, but the DLLRegisterServer entry
 >point was not found.
 >DLLRegistryServer may not be exported, or a corrupt version of
 >C:\winnt\system32\comcat.dll may be in memory.
 >Consider using Pview to detect and remove it.

 >Neither of these error messages appear in the lists in the NT4 Resource Kit.
 >Other than this 2000i issue, NT works perfectly.  If anyone has any clues, I
 >would love to hear from you.

 >Thanks,
 >Chris