OLE Error Running Applications After Applying Service Pack 2

After you apply Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 2, you may receive one of the following OLE error messages when running an application that makes a call to create a form and alter the font attributes: -or-

This is caused by the changes to Olepro32.dll in Service Pack 2 where Olepro32 became a shell that now thunks any OLE call to other OLE executable files. Some of the functions are not automatically being thunked over to the new executable files.

To work around the above errors, run the following at a command prompt: Regsvr32.exe is located in the %SystemRoot%\System32 folder.

After you run the above commands, you should be able to run your application without experiencing the error messages.

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Windows NT version 4.0. We are researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.