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posted Jan 9, 2023 10:25:46 AM

Turbo Tax Canada will not install on Windows 10 Desktop. Error 2894 Loading riched20.dll

I cannot find out how to fix riched20.dll - if that is what the problem comes from.

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Jan 9, 2023 10:36:56 AM

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Mar 21, 2023 9:24:09 AM

Spend over an hour on the phone with TurboTax.ca support, but they were not able to help, they suggested Microsoft might be able to help.  Found this through Google.

 

Had this error trying to install TurboTax 2022  Found the solution on Microsoft.  Here is the link to the help;

 

How to resolve "Error 2894.Info 2894.Loading RICHED20.DLL failed". - Microsoft Community
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/how-to-res[product key removed]nfo-2894loading/87f23c74-a237-49eb-8a77-65a06af64ee4

 

"Administrator Command Prompt"  Results:

 


C:\Windows\system32>CERTUTIL -hashfile c:\windows\syswow64\riched20.dll sha256
SHA256 hash of c:\windows\syswow64\riched20.dll:
aee7ebf38be4c4ecaa858c8e201c27628e3b5bae80b820f5dc984173fdf2cdab
CertUtil: -hashfile command completed successfully.

C:\Windows\system32>ICACLS c:\windows\syswow64\riched20.dll /grant "NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM":(RX)
processed file: c:\windows\syswow64\riched20.dll
Successfully processed 1 files; Failed processing 0 files

C:\Windows\system32>ICACLS c:\windows\syswow64\riched20.dll /grant "BUILTIN\Users":(RX)
processed file: c:\windows\syswow64\riched20.dll

 

Did all of the steps as above, Turbo Tax 2022 installed right away, no more Error 2894.
Successfully processed 1 files; Failed processing 0 files

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