What happened to regtlibv12?

Question

I have a clean install of Windows 8 on a partition, with Visual Studio 11/2012 Professional installed and I cannot find regtlibv12.exe inside C:\\Windows\

Answer 1

1. Install 7-Zip from https://www.7-zip.org/download.html
2. Download lessmsi/Less MSIérables from https://github.com/activescott/lessmsi/releases

(Or you can use chocolatey https://chocolatey.org to install both of the above: package names are 7zip and lessmsi respectively.)

3. Download the .NET Framework 4.0 Standalone Installer from https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details.aspx?id=17718
4. Use 7-Zip to open the downloaded dotNetFx40_Full_x86_x64.exe from the previous step, extract the files netfx_Core_x64.msi and netFxCore.mzz to a temporary directory
5. Use lessmsi to open netfx_Core_x64.msi, scroll down the file list and select regtlibv12.exe (the one with Component = regtlibv12_exe_amd64 for an x64 system, the other one for x86, or both if you need both) and click the "Extract" button
6. Browse for and select the directory you want to extract the files to, click OK
7. Et voila, you now have regtlibv12.exe!

• Note: I am not a lawyer and am unaware if the above violates any laws, nor can I be held liable if it does and gets you into trouble. At the very least, do not redistribute regtlibv12.exe (regardless of the fact that doing so would be illegal, if you think you need to - you either don't, or your software has big problems).