Error in Microsoft.CppCommon.targets MSB3073 exited with code 4

Question

I'm trying to build a VS2013 project using VS2017. I solved many issues already, but I'm now stuck on the following error:

Error MSB3073
The command "regsvr32 /s /c "C:\workspace\myProject\.\Debug\myProject.dll" 
echo regsvr32 exec. time > ".\Debug\regsvr32.trg" 
:VCEnd" 
exited with code 4.

at C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\VC\VCTargets\Microsoft.CppCommon.targets 217

Any ideas? Many thanks!

You must look in the Output window for the error message that Regsvr32 produced. — Hans Passant, Aug 17 '18 at 17:30

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 17 '18 at 15:53

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This could a security problem i had a similar issue, The VS was trying to copy a file into the systems folder, I had to run visual studio as a Administrator and that seemed to fixed my issue.

answered Aug 17 '18 at 15:53

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Thank you Wojtek. I've tried running as Administrator, but I got the same error – Gep Aug 17 '18 at 16:07

Error in Microsoft.CppCommon.targets MSB3073 exited with code 4

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