1. BACK UP YOUR REGISTRY
2.
mscoree.dll APPEARS TO BE a part of the .net Framework only. It does not appear to be serving any other purpose...
3. If you do not specifically need to use the
.net Framework, then get rid of any and all references to it, in the registry. I made the mistake of thinking I did.
4. before you hit the kill switch
be sure to be sure to be sure that what you are killing, is not connected to something important!!!
5. the following seemed o.k., in my case...zappo! ...here are the keys to search for,
and any other combos you can think of...just kill them...along with all versions of mscoree.dll that are lurking everywhere it seems. Leave a couple copies of mscoree.dll in a cache somewhere, just in case
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