Lately I have been seeing the Visual Studio.Net 2003 Error : "The specified module could not be found" when I go to create a new project or solution.  No files and no references are created.  Super annoying to have to add the basic references and create the source files on your own.  Oh, and I couldnt even add a new .CS source file to the project.  Again with the same error. 

This morning I decided to get to the bottom of the issue.  I unistalled the product completely, then reinstalled it.  Blew away my whole morning.  Man that sucks.

So I figured that would just fix it?  Right?  Nope.  Same annoying error. 

For some reason I was compelled to Google for the error. A few links into the results and I see this conversation.  I thought to myself, it couldnt be that easy, just regsvr32 the obscure dll.  What the heck do I have to lose? So I gave it a try...

regsvr32 %systemroot%\System32\Scrrun.dll

Bingo.  It fixed it.  Next time, I will search for the issue first, before wasting my morning.  Just silly.

15 Comments

• Rick said Thursday, March 3, 2005 4:09:00 PM

  I too tried re-installing first. Waste of time.
  
  Excellent fix. Thanks for the link!

• Betsy said Saturday, March 26, 2005 12:39:00 PM

  Thanks for the help. It saved me from a reinstall, and it worked!

• steve said Monday, July 31, 2006 7:54:22 AM

  thanks, that was easy!

• Sreejith said Tuesday, August 8, 2006 9:00:20 PM

  Thank you very much... Really excellent solution for this error... thanks again Sreejith.

• Jake said Sunday, September 17, 2006 4:44:17 AM

  Thanks heaps. I did a repair (wasted my time), then Google'd and found this. Worked a treat.

• shan said Friday, September 22, 2006 9:51:26 AM

  Thanks for ur help...

• Daniel said Friday, November 17, 2006 11:32:52 AM

  After troubleshooting the problem for 5 or 6 hours, I finally Googled the error and found this fix. Worked like a charm! Thanks a bunch!

• Rico said Friday, April 6, 2007 6:21:59 AM

  It didn't work for me :(

• Raghu said Saturday, August 4, 2007 1:48:35 AM

  Oh.. my god... you should be a "wizard"

• # said Wednesday, August 22, 2007 2:33:02 PM

  Did not work for me.

• Willits said Monday, September 3, 2007 2:49:03 PM

  Didnt Work for me either. can you run me through the steps. step by step? Thanks for your time!

• Deroc said Wednesday, February 20, 2008 8:51:25 PM

  Its after a long time and i'm using vs2005, but the sme fix worked for me. Thanks...

• Sam Yong said Monday, June 16, 2008 2:36:49 AM

  failed for me. my error code was 7E 00 00 00

• Jeff said Wednesday, December 10, 2008 10:22:32 AM

  I have tried to unregister and re-register the .dll but still nothing? Please help.

• vijay said Tuesday, August 25, 2009 3:46:53 AM

  Dude it worked.. thx a lot.. saved a lot of time...