Error on clicking on Text to Speech tab in Speech properties in Control Panel

Question

When I click on Text to Speech tab in Speech properties I receive error:

"C:\WINDOWS\system32\shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Speech\sapi.cpl",Speech".

There's a hotfix mentioned the the KBs in MS support.For that MS sent me a password protected file ; 170483_ENU_i386_zip.exe which contained two files : WindowsXP-KB838659-x86-ENU.EXE and WINDOWSXP-KB838659-X86-ENU-Symbols.EXE . The first one did not install as it said i already had it and the second one unpacked some dlls which i don't know how to use.

I also tried Re-registering sapi.dll on Windows XP using C:\Windows\System32\regsvr32.exe

Is there any other fix to this error?

Answer 1

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