After installing FRx 6.7 with service pack 9 on a windows 7 machine (x86) the user gets the following error when launching the drill-down viewer file “A newer version of msxml.dll is required”
FRx 6.7 service pack 11 is compatible with Windows 7 and Windows server 2008 versions, but only with the 32-bit versions. FRx 6.7 is not compatible on x64, here’s a link from Microsoft
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2014857
However, if you must run FRx 6.7 sp9 on windows 7, here are the steps we took to get it running:
Before the FRx install, the following MSXML installations were already loaded on the windows 7 computer:
We tried the following to resolve the error:
- We re-registered the FRx program dll’s by running the following (double-click to start) “FRxReg.exe” and “FRxReg67.cmd”.
- The we tried to download the most recent version of MSXML 3.0 which did not resolve the issue nor update the msxml.dll file to the current proper version: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=7f6c0cb4-7a5e-4790-a7cf-9e139e6819c0
- I had access to a freshly installed Windows Server 2008 machine and I copied msxml.dll file from that machine onto the windows 7 machine and registered that dll which you can download here msxml
- To properly register the dll you can go to here: http://www.winvistaclub.com/e43.html
Once we installed the attached dll and registered it, we ran “FRxReg.exe” and “FRxReg67.cmd” from the FRx directory (C:\Program Files\FRx Software\FRx 6.7\) and the FRx drill-down viewer file worked again even though the screenshot calls for a minimum version of 8.0.6730.0 and the attached msxml.dll version is only 8.0.5226.0.
I so thank you for these procedures. I had a customer with FRx 6.7.8 sp 11 and was getting all these errors. I worked for over 8 hours uninstalling and reinstalling with no results. the msxml.dll would not register on windows 7 64. I finally ran the frxreg.exe and the frxreg64.exe and I think that did it.
Thank God for the internet and for users who post their issues and the resolutions.