BI Publisher desktop won’t install

I’m running windows 7, 8 with office 2010, 2013 respectively.  Have oracle 11G client.  I’m using this machine for some Report development.

But, I keep getting: “Template Builder Installer failed": Unexpected Error”

People are putting all sorts of stuff on forums that look like pot shots.  “Try uninstall and install again” – huh???,  but computers generally do the same thing given the same input.

How about I find some log files and go from there.

C:\Users\AmitGupta\AppData\Local\Temp has TemplateBuilderInstaller.log – WOW!  direct hit.

This has:

Word process check start
Error No.: 339
Description: Component 'MSCOMCTL.OCX' or one of its dependencies not correctly registered: a file is missing or invalid

WOW again, direct hit.

I need to install this file, mscomctl.ocx does not exist on my machine

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=25437d98-51d0-41c1-bb14-64662f5f62fe&displaylang=en

download this file, and install it.  You can install this on 64 windows.

Right…  That did not work, even when I tried the repair…  Damn!

I tried a few other things, and then.

http://www.ascentive.com/support/new/support_dll.phtml?dllname=MSCOMCTL.OCX

Downloaded this file (MSCOMCTL.OCX)

And then put this file C:\Windows\SysWOW64 location.

Restart the installation!