"Failed to Initialize COM" = SOLVED

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well, i tracked down the application that's causing the error. it appears IconPackager v3.0 is the culprit. game runs fine until i install that and reboot, then i get the COM error. the first time i tried it after i figured out which app, i uninstalled it, rebooted, and SSE worked again. so i reinstalled it (and rebooted) to reproduce the error, which it did. this time, however, when i uninstalled IP and rebooted, the COM error didn't go away (and won't, from what i've seen with this problem. this is a clean install of windows i'm trying.) i have a ghost image of the pre-IP windows installation, which i'm going to restore and try to reproduce the error again.
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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

If you rename the iprepair.dll file (located within the IconPackager directory that defaults to C:\Program Files\Stardock\Object Desktop\IconPackager) to something else, for example iprepair.dll.bak, does that help your problem?

-Mike

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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
yep, that's it. if i rename that file, SSE works fine. if i change it back to iprepair.dll, i get the COM error.

nice.

thanks for the help, now i can play instead of trying to figure this out.