Bug RC1: Will not send images to PowerPoint

Running 4.5 RC1 (At the moment do not have a 4.3 to test this with)

Right click on an image file and select send to PowerPoint and nothing happens.

This is true no matter if PowerPoint is running or not.

System and PowerPoint information is show below.

Log files attached.

1004.Logos4Indexer.zip

 

Your log file shows the following error:

System.IO.FileFormatException: The image format is unrecognized. ---> System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x88982F07): Exception from HRESULT: 0x88982F07

Unfortunately, Microsoft doesn't provide much information about this error, but as far as I can tell, it means the "Windows Imaging Component" (that we rely on for image processing) can't load the JPG files you're right-clicking on, and thus we can't export them to PowerPoint. Since JPG decompression is built into WIC, my guess would be that the WIC codecs have been deregistered somehow, or perhaps you've installed a new codec (e.g., to read a digital camera's RAW files) that is hiding the built-in ones. Does the registry key "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Wow6432Node\CLSID\{9456A480-E88B-43EA-9E73-0B2D9B71B1CA}\InProcServer32" exist on your computer with the (Default) value "%SystemRoot%\system32\windowscodecs.dll" ? That's the key for the built-in JPEG decoder, so if it's missing, that would definitely be related to the problem. (Of course, that key may be present, but something else it depends on could be missing.) The WIC codecs are implemented in WindowsCodecs.dll, but I don't know of any way to ask WIC to re-register its built-in codecs.

Bradley Grainger:

Does the registry key "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Wow6432Node\CLSID\{9456A480-E88B-43EA-9E73-0B2D9B71B1CA}\InProcServer32" exist on your computer with the (Default) value "%SystemRoot%\system32\windowscodecs.dll" ?

Yes. It is a perfect match. So that means it must be something else. At this point I have no idea what it may be. I am out in the field (actually on the subarctic tundra) until until after Easter with only this one machine. Therefore I will have to wait until nearly May to pursue anything drastic.

Thanks for reading the logs!