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EricL:
I don't plan to do anything about this until I dive into the new installer.

Moonfisher:
Heh tryed uninstalling and installing again, still didn't work
But it works on my laptop and at work, so I have no clue what happened.
I'll try adding the dll.
But loading a sim with coustom costs still works, so currently I'm just changing the settings with the laptop.
I'm hoping the dll will work, but it doesn't seem to be a general problem, don't know how I managed to screw it up

EricL:
A classic problem is unistallers.  Companies spend as little as possible on unistallers.  It's just not their focus.  So, a common issue is for an app's uninstaller to uninstall DLL's like this that they perhaps optionally installed but other programs could still need and be using.  They just don't test the scenerios and they could have a bug in the DLL refcount or similar.   Windows sucks here in providing apps decent package support to make this easier.  Damn 1980's technology....  

Or, it's quite possible the DB installer doesn't increment the refcount on the DLL in the registry or similar and that last thing you uninstalled - some totally unrelated app - thought no one else was using this and nuked it....

goffrie:
I got this bug too, on a fresh install of Windows (in VirtualBox, I run Linux as the host). It isn't included in Windows and the installer doesn't install it. Downloading it from the Internet and putting it in \WINDOWS\system32 fixed it.
(I may or may not have needed to run 'regsvr32 msstdfmt.dll', I don't remember. Anyways, it definitely doesn't involve 'regedt32'.)

Moonfisher:
Just wanted to say I tryed goffrie's instructions and it worked.
Had to run the command aswell.

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