Solved Microsoft (C) Register Server Has Stopped Working

Hi there.

Out of nothing I get the following message whenever I try to open FireFox

“microsoft (C) Register Server has stopped working”

Internet Explorer won’t open either, but it doesn’t give a pop-up or anything, it just pretends I didn’t open it.

The only way I can open a browser now is by running it as ‘administrator’

I’ve taken the following steps, none of which have had any effect

– Booted in Safe mode, same problem
– Made a backup of regsvr32.exe just in case
– Reverted the so called faulty module ‘MSVCR100.dll’ to an older version
– tried the DEP on trick in windows system
– Fully updated win 7
– Fully scanned for viruses
– Re-installed Firefox
– reboot, reboot, reboot
– searched online for solutions

Getting kinda weird now

Exception code: 0xc0000417
Fault offset: 0x0008ae6e
Faulting process id: 0x1d4
Faulting application start time: 0x01cd530ed89da0e3
Faulting application path: C:\Windows\SysWOW64\regsvr32.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\MSVCR100.dll