Hello,

I am getting the following error whenever I try to open theAdd/Remove
Programs in Control Panel. Can someone please help me out.

An unexpected error occured.

Wrong number of arguments or invalid property assignment

res://appwiz.cpl/default.hta

Line: 77



Thanks,

Hari

Hari wrote:

> I am getting the following error whenever I try to open theAdd/Remove
> Programs in Control Panel. Can someone please help me out.
>
> An unexpected error occured.
>
> Wrong number of arguments or invalid property assignment
>
> res://appwiz.cpl/default.hta

Hi

From the "Run" box try

regsvr32 %windir%\system32\appwiz.cpl

and
regsvr32 %windir%\system32\webvw.dll

and
regsvr32 %windir%\system32\mshtml.dll


If this doesn't help, in the German newsgroup, one person fixed the
same type of error by reinstalling IE
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm...de%40127.0.0.1

and

Add/Remove Programs Tool Displays Installed Programs Incorrectly
http://support.microsoft.com/default...B;EN-US;266668

The article above also tells you how to repair Internet Explorer 6.0


See tip 6032 at http://www.jsiinc.com/reghack.htm as well

If this doesn't help, try to reinstall the OS service pack you already have
installed (or install a newer one if possible).


If the problem persists, you'll could do an in-place upgrade of the OS and see
if it helps:

How to Perform an In-Place Upgrade of Windows 2000
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;EN-US;292175


--
torgeir
Microsoft MVP Scripting and WMI, Porsgrunn Norway
Administration scripting examples and an ONLINE version of the 1328 page
Scripting Guide: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter

Instead of registering or updating the registry manuall as the support link
suggests , is there a patch to download, which can be run on the
machine to fix this . I am quite skeptical about editing the registry and
registering individual dlls.
- Hari

"Torgeir Bakken (MVP)" <Torgeir.Bakken-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hari wrote:
>
> > I am getting the following error whenever I try to open theAdd/Remove
> > Programs in Control Panel. Can someone please help me out.
> >
> > An unexpected error occured.
> >
> > Wrong number of arguments or invalid property assignment
> >
> > res://appwiz.cpl/default.hta
>
> Hi
>
> From the "Run" box try
>
> regsvr32 %windir%\system32\appwiz.cpl
>
> and
> regsvr32 %windir%\system32\webvw.dll
>
> and
> regsvr32 %windir%\system32\mshtml.dll
>
>
> If this doesn't help, in the German newsgroup, one person fixed the
> same type of error by reinstalling IE
>
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm...rtalde%40127.0
..0.1
>
> and
>
> Add/Remove Programs Tool Displays Installed Programs Incorrectly
> http://support.microsoft.com/default...B;EN-US;266668
>
> The article above also tells you how to repair Internet Explorer 6.0
>
>
> See tip 6032 at http://www.jsiinc.com/reghack.htm as well
>
> If this doesn't help, try to reinstall the OS service pack you already
have
> installed (or install a newer one if possible).
>
>
> If the problem persists, you'll could do an in-place upgrade of the OS and
see
> if it helps:
>
> How to Perform an In-Place Upgrade of Windows 2000
> http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;EN-US;292175
>
>
> --
> torgeir
> Microsoft MVP Scripting and WMI, Porsgrunn Norway
> Administration scripting examples and an ONLINE version of the 1328 page
> Scripting Guide: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter
>
>

Hari wrote:

> Instead of registering or updating the registry manuall as the support link
> suggests , is there a patch to download, which can be run on the
> machine to fix this . I am quite skeptical about editing the registry and
> registering individual dlls.

Hi

Re-registering those three dlls are quite harmless...


--
torgeir
Microsoft MVP Scripting and WMI, Porsgrunn Norway
Administration scripting examples and an ONLINE version of the 1328 page
Scripting Guide: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter