Printing email not longer working in Windows Mail (System: Vista64, IE8)

i have Vista64 and Windows Mail. Yesterday i installed IE8 and all the
office 2007 patches (don't know if relevant).
Now i am having problems printing emails. I get a windows with a script
error (i have a German windows, so i try to translate the error to english):

Title: Internet Explorer Scripterror

Line 291
Character ( Column ?) 1
Error: Interface not registered
Code 0
URL: res://ieframe.dll/preview.js

No i can stop the script or continue, but nothing happens. I don't get a
print dialog nor a print out...

I cannot reproduce the error on a Vista32 notebook. Could be Vista64 related
or error only happens on my computer, i don't know ?

Try uninstalling IE8, which should revert you back to IE7:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957700

A big thanks goes to the "heise Forum", here is the solution:

In a DOS-Box execute the following command as administrator:

regsvr32 actxprxy.dll

The above command seems to be enough, but previously i executed the
following commands:

regsvr32 ole32.dll
regsvr32 oleaut32.dll

The last two haven't solved my problem, but perhaps are needed to solve the
complete problem with the first command ?

You approved the install of IE8, d00d.

I understand this can happen when the user leaves his security
software active while installing IE8, in spite of Microsoft's advice.

[tahexltd]

Came across this post when I installed IE8 and suddenly couldn't print (script errors) or open links in new tabs. Registering actprxy.dll using 'regsvr32 actxprxy.dll' did indeed fix the problem. Thanks Martin for your solution and NO THANKS MICROSOFT for yet another bodged IE forced upon users by Windows Update...

[RBHemm]

Using 32 bit windows xp, sp3 with all current essential security upgrades.
Running OE 6, on top of first IE7 now IE8
Using Free Avast AV, after trying many others.

Took one look at "Windows Mail" and trashed it.

If it ain't broken, don't fix it.
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Please forgive my rambling style. The following post is a condensation of a tale of woe & misery beginning April 2010!!

History of Problem

Like a fool, I installed SP3, and after much thought and reluctance, installed IE8.

I recently had a problem with IE8, and reverted back to IE7.
The problem was that I could not "save target as" any files, to download any files whatsoever. I could not set security settings so that I could download anything.
So I tried alternate browsers.

IE7 worked fine, but I became nervous about security and reupgraded to IE8.

Really leery about installing any program with virus protection off, usually all programs install without problem with AV on.

Apparently one cannot install IE with AV on. To me that is a big mistake.

After redoing IE8, got the messages with various line numbers:

Line 291
Character ( Column ?) 1
Error: Interface not registered
Code 0
URL: res://ieframe.dll/preview.js

I only found this thread and fix because I pumped res://ieframe.dll/preview.js
into Google and this forum popped up.

(Oh yeah, tried Bing, found it useless, trashed it).

On the reupgrade to IE8, about 2 weeks ago, starting getting the referenced script errors and could not print OE messages.

Redowngraded to IE 7, same errors in OE.

Reupgraded to IE8, same errors.

Tried various and different email clients, including wordperfect, which is another story, it can't get past a visual c++ runtime error and zonks out.

Finally found the answer here.

Like an idiot I left AV on.

Tried regsvr32 actxprxy.dll
Same error.
rebooted.

Tried regsvr32 ole32.dll
regsvr32 oleaut32.dll
same error.
rebooted.

What finally worked was:

reboot
turn off all shields in Avast AV.
run in this order
regsvr32 ole32.dll
regsvr32 oleaut32.dll
regsvr32 actxprxy.dll

Did the trick. Instant fix without a reboot.
Rebooted and fix was still in.

Regsvr32 will not do it unless no AV is on.

OE 6 is not sick anymore.

I won't waste my time with Outlook of any stripe.
I have been using OE since Win98.

PS on the last reinstall of IE 8, the save file as dialogue now works. (I fixed it, not knowing what I did. Does that qualify me as a designer of Win 7, like the idiots in the TV ads?)

If it ain't broken, don't fix it.

PPS I was so frustrated with the IE 8 download problem, I tried Puppy Linux and Ubuntu Linux on my laptop, and wasted several days of my vacation checking them out.

Not good enough for business purposes. Never could get a POP3 email client to work.

(Have Vista on an HP Laptop. Downloaded the XP drivers, trashed Vista and have not looked back.)

The failure of the Linux operating systems to meet the expectations of a windows user (since version 3.0) is catastrophic. I like their GUI but when I left CP/M I left the command line interface, and have not looked back. (Did HDOS and CP/M from 1979 onward.)
And I am not interested in any command line nonsense except as a fix.

My Ferrari race car type PC does not creep along in the right lane at 5 mph, on the command line.

[daviepj]

Apologies for posting so long after the rest of the thread - I was having the same issues and followed advice on this thread. I found the final part of the solution to be related to IE 32 bit not being in a runnable state (when I clicked on the exe it simply did not run). The following site contained the commands that was the final part to re enabling -

which has a set of script that when executed after the commands here meant 32 bit IE 8 ran and then the printing window popped up!