http://www.msftliveblogs.com/mhamilton/category/4.aspx General ASP.Net Development Topics en-US Michael J. Hamilton, Sr. mike@mjhamilton.com Subtext Version 1.9.5.176 http://msftliveblogs.com/mhamilton/archive/2008/04/13/the-microsoft.jet.oledb.4.0-provider-is-not-registered-on-the-local-machine-again.aspx <p>I ran into this problem while trying to model some demo code for an ASP.Net application.</p> <p>I'm running Vista Enterprise x64 and Visual Studio x64 2008.</p> <p>When I tried to create a new web application in VS 2008 and browse it, I'd get the above error. The fix was to change the application pool to run in 32 bit.</p> <p>Right-Click on My Computer --&gt; Manage</p> <p>Expand Services and Applications</p> <p>Select Internet Information Services, then local Application Pools under Connections.</p> <p> </p> <p><a href="http://msftliveblogs.com/images/msftliveblogs_com/mhamilton/WindowsLiveWriter/The.0providerisnotregisteredonthelocalma_BB3B/image_2.png"><img style="border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="220" alt="image" src="http://msftliveblogs.com/images/msftliveblogs_com/mhamilton/WindowsLiveWriter/The.0providerisnotregisteredonthelocalma_BB3B/image_thumb.png" width="440" border="0" /></a> </p> <p>Right click on DefaultAppPool, Advanced Settings, and set the 32bit mode to True:</p> <p><a href="http://msftliveblogs.com/images/msftliveblogs_com/mhamilton/WindowsLiveWriter/The.0providerisnotregisteredonthelocalma_BB3B/image_4.png"><img style="border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="424" alt="image" src="http://msftliveblogs.com/images/msftliveblogs_com/mhamilton/WindowsLiveWriter/The.0providerisnotregisteredonthelocalma_BB3B/image_thumb_1.png" width="413" border="0" /></a> </p> <p>Hopefully this will be useful to others out there.</p> <p> </p> <p>MikeH... Another Geek in Need...</p><img src="http://msftliveblogs.com/mhamilton/aggbug/31.aspx" width="1" height="1" /> Michael J. Hamilton, Sr. http://msftliveblogs.com/mhamilton/archive/2008/04/13/the-microsoft.jet.oledb.4.0-provider-is-not-registered-on-the-local-machine-again.aspx Sun, 13 Apr 2008 11:40:56 GMT http://msftliveblogs.com/mhamilton/comments/31.aspx http://msftliveblogs.com/mhamilton/archive/2008/04/13/the-microsoft.jet.oledb.4.0-provider-is-not-registered-on-the-local-machine-again.aspx#feedback 5 http://msftliveblogs.com/mhamilton/comments/commentRss/31.aspx http://msftliveblogs.com/mhamilton/services/trackbacks/31.aspx