Quickbooks Install Error Qbregistration.dat
in to Go to QuickBooks.com QuickBooks Learn & Support Home QuickBooks Help Last modified QuickBooks, United States Error: QuickBooks has a problem in reading this registration file: qbregistration.dat When starting QuickBooks Desktop, the Loading QuickBooks screen appears temporarily, then the error appears: Why this is happening This error usually occurs if there has been damage to the MSXML component of Windows. Other possible causes include: Issues with User Account Control settings. Having Norton 360 (or a similar Norton product) installed and running while QuickBooks is being installed or updated. Corrupted QuickBooks installation files resulting from an incomplete "clean install." Note: following these steps will not affect the data in your Company File. How to fix it Intuit recommends 3 solutions for this problem. The first solution may solve your problem, or you may need to try all of them to resolve the issue. For best results, perform the solutions in the order shown. Important: These troubleshooting steps may help resolve your issue. They focus on the Windows operating system, which is not an Intuit product. Intuit recommends that if you are not comfortable doing these steps on your own, you find the expert assistance that you need by consulting your computer's manufacturer or a Windows expert. If the difficulty persists after performing these steps, contact your computer's manufacturer or Microsoft. Solution 1: Toggle UAC on or off Toggle User Account Control settings Solution 2: Repair the MSXML component Download the msxml.msi file from Microsoft. Save the file to your desktop. Once the file has been saved, on your keyboard, press Windows + R to open the Run window. In the Open field, enter msiexec.exe /fvaum "%userprofile%\Desktop\msxml.msi" and click OK. When the installation is complete, click OK. Create or re-create the qbregistration.dat file, as needed. Register the
in to Go to QuickBooks.com QuickBooks Learn & Support Home QuickBooks Help Last modified QuickBooks, United States Error: QuickBooks has a problem in reading this registration file: qbregistration.dat When starting QuickBooks Desktop, the Loading QuickBooks screen appears temporarily, then the error appears: Why this is happening This error usually occurs if there has been damage to the MSXML component of Windows. Other possible causes include: Issues with User Account Control settings. Having Norton 360 (or https://community.intuit.com/articles/1020826-error-quickbooks-has-a-problem-in-reading-this-registration-file-qbregistration-dat a similar Norton product) installed and running while QuickBooks is being installed or updated. Corrupted QuickBooks installation files resulting from an incomplete "clean install." Note: following these steps will not affect the data in your Company File. How to fix it Intuit recommends 3 solutions for this problem. The first solution may solve your problem, or https://community.intuit.com/articles/1020826-error-quickbooks-has-a-problem-in-reading-this-registration-file-qbregistration-dat you may need to try all of them to resolve the issue. For best results, perform the solutions in the order shown. Important: These troubleshooting steps may help resolve your issue. They focus on the Windows operating system, which is not an Intuit product. Intuit recommends that if you are not comfortable doing these steps on your own, you find the expert assistance that you need by consulting your computer's manufacturer or a Windows expert. If the difficulty persists after performing these steps, contact your computer's manufacturer or Microsoft. Solution 1: Toggle UAC on or off Toggle User Account Control settings Solution 2: Repair the MSXML component Download the msxml.msi file from Microsoft. Save the file to your desktop. Once the file has been saved, on your keyboard, press Windows + R to open the Run window. In the Open field, enter msiexec.exe /fvaum "%userprofile%\Desktop\msxml.msi" and click OK. When the installation is complete, click OK. Create or re-create the qbregistration.dat file, as needed. Register
in to Go to QuickBooks.com × Close Why do you want to report this? Spam Profanity https://community.intuit.com/questions/1198110-create-or-re-create-the-qbregistration-dat-file-2014-and-older-versions Threats/Abuse Inappropriate Virus/Danger Broken Links Other Back to search results Create or re-create the qbregistration.dat file (2014 and older versions) Comment Asked by QuickBooks Help QuickBooks http://www.finalcircuit.com/quickbooks-cant-read-qbregistration-dat 2014 & Older, United States Options Edit Ask for details Archive hide info × Close Why do you want to report this? Spam Profanity Threats/Abuse Inappropriate quickbooks install Virus/Danger Broken Links Other Recommended Answer If the qbregistration.dat file is not created, created incorrectly, or becomes corrupted, you can create it yourself manually. Note: following these steps will not effect the data in your Company File. Detailed instructionsFor the steps below, you will need your license and product numbers. How to locate quickbooks install error your license and product numbers To find your license and product numbers: For a downloaded product, look in the purchase confirmation email you received from Intuit. If you purchased QuickBooks on CD, look for the a brightly colored sticker on the original CD envelope. ProAdvisors: You can locate your installation codes on the ProAdvisor Software & Licenses page (login required). If you have previously registered your QuickBooks software, you can get help finding your license number or key code with our License and Key Code Lookup tool. (ProAdvisors: This tool will not work for licenses included in your ProAdvisor software package, but it will work for copies of QuickBooks you ordered separately). If you have not previously registered your QuickBooks software our knowledgebase article on missing or illegible installation numbers may help. To create the qbregistration.dat file: Browse to the QuickBooks folder where qbregistration.dat should be located. The folder location depends on your version of Windows: Note: If you do
Pro although I think this problem can occur on pretty much any version. When opening Quickbooks, you almost immediately get the following message and then the program closes: Quickbooks has problem in reading this registration file. You need to ask you system administrator to REMOVE this file and re-install Quickbooks.
C:\ProgramData\Common Files\Intuit\QuickBooks\qbregistration.dat Googling turned up this Quickbooks support article which suggests first trying to change the UAC settings from On to Off … or vice versa. That ‘have you tried turning it off and on again' approach didn't give me a lot of confidence in the article (especially as it made no difference) so I was sceptical about suggestion 2, a repair installation of MSXML 4.0. Sure, qbregistration.dat is an XML file but wouldn't other things be having problems if that was broken and not just Quickbooks? Then I ran across a post on Microsoft Community support which said they'd solved the problem by following that step. So I downloaded MSXML 4.0 SP3 and did a repair install with the suggested options: msiexec /fvaum msxml.msi My qbregistration.dat file looked OK so I left that as it was. I then re-registered the DLLs (on Windows 7 64 bit, I had to be in C:\Windows\SYSWOW64 to get the registration of MSXML4.DLL to work, that directory is not on the path I guess) and rebooted. It worked! I had messed around with the UAC settings but they've ended up as they started off so I'm not sure that made a difference in my case. Invoices can now be created. Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Google+ (Opens in new window) Related Post navigation ← Backup Exec 2012 Oracle agent, error 0xe000846b and firewalls Virtualbox - FATAL: Could not read from the boot medium! → Pages Blog Contact Home Privacy policy Services Solutions Links ELECSA Microsoft BizSpark Windows Azure Recent Posts Virtualbox - VT-x/AMD-v acceleration not available Virtualbox - FATAL: Could not read from the boot medium! Quickbooks can't read qbregistration.dat Backup Exec 2012 Oracle agent, error 0xe000846b and firewalls "Sequence contains more than one matching element" error when publishing Proudly powered by WordPress