Unable to load DLL 'WindowsAccessBridge-32.dll'

[Stevoisiak]

Issue

When using the Access Bridge Explorer on a 32 bit Windows 7 machine, after around 30 seconds an unhandled exception appears with the following text.

Unhandled exception has occured in your application. If you click
Continue, the application will ignore this error and attempt to continue. If
you click Quit, the application will close immediately.

Unable to load DLL 'WindowsAccessBridge-32.dll': The specified module
could not be found. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007007E).

Behavior

If I ignore the error by clicking Continue, The application will continue functioning as expected without any issue. However, the error will appear again after around a minute of use.

Cause

On a 32-bit Windows 7 machine running Java 7 Update 76, there is no file for WindowsAccessBridge-32.dll. From what I can tell, this file only existed in older, manual installations of the Java Access Bridge made prior to Java 7's default inclusion of the JAB.

In the absence of WindowsAccessBridge-32.dll, Access Bridge Explorer should be using C:\Windows\System32\WindowsAccessBridge.dll

[duckie-github]

I am encountering this issue on a 32-bit windows 7 machine running Java 8. Same as you mentioned the above, I've only have WindowsAccessBridge.dll. My challenge is I don't have Admin rights to install anything (in corporate env). I tried to copy the WindowsAccessBridge.dll (from C:\Windows\System32 or jre1.8.0_162\bin) or WindowsAccessBridge-32.dll (from the Access Bridge 2_0_2 dowloaded from Oracle) over to the ABE extract folder, can't resolve the problem. Is there any way to refer the ABE to the WindowsAccessBridge.dll instead of WindowsAccessBridge-32.dll? Thank you!