Friday, March 2, 2012

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If you have a Crystal Report that won't refresh links to a bitmap image and get this error

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It's caused by Crystal Report wanting OLE objects for bitmaps to be associated to MSPaint

Try typing the following command in the command prompt, it will give you the OLE association for bitmap files
assoc.bmp

It should state ".bmp=Paint.Picture", if not then type
assoc.bmp=Paint.Picture

Restart the application using the report and it will work.

Last time we had this issue we ended up rebuilding a user's computer, I am so happy to have found this.