Why do I receive the error "Registration Error: An error occurred while trying to register MATLAB as OLE server." during the installation process of MATLAB?

I receive the error during the installation process of MATLAB.

ERROR: Registration Error: An error occured while trying to register MATLAB as OLE server.

Answer 1

[MathWorks Support Team]

This error can occur if the Visual Studio 2005 Runtime Libraries are not installed on the machine. This can occur if:

• The Windows Installer on the machine is older than version 3.1
• The user running MATLAB does not have administrative rights
• MATLAB is not started with the matlab.bat file from $MATLAB\bin (where $MATLAB is the installation folder for MATLAB)

To resolve this error, run the following executable file with administrator rights:

$MATLAB\bin\win32\vcredist_x86.exe (for 32-bit MATLAB)

$MATLAB\bin\win64\vcredist_x64.exe (for 64-bit MATLAB)

You should see the Visual Studio 2005 Runtime library installer appear and complete the installation. If you see the following errors:

ERROR: MS visual C++ 2005 redistributable:
Error 1723. There is a problem with this Windows Installer package. A DLL required for this install to complete could not be run. Contact your support personnel or package vendor.

or

ERROR: VCRT_check.exe failed: MFC80U.DLL library could not be located.

You will need to update the Windows Installer. For more details see the Bug Report here:

http://www.mathworks.com/support/bugreports/details.html?rp=330449

If this does not solve the problem, follow the steps in the documentation in section "External Interfaces" to manually register MATLAB using the 'matlab /regserver' command (Step: "Register MATLAB as a COM Server").

NOTE:

These files are not included as of R2016b and after. If you experience this error on those releases, please contact support.

[Walter Roberson]

Which MATLAB release are you using, and on which operating system? Are you using 32 bit MATLAB or 64 bit? Is your operating system 32 bit or 64 bit?