Can I get assistance with Paratext Crashing?

Question

This is the error message I am receiving. I have attempted to register the SIL.Windows.Forms.Keyboarding.dll manually but I still receive an error that the DLLregisterserver is not implemented in this dll. 
Not sure if I am trying to register the wrong one or not. 
I've also tried changing the default keyboard language but it has not helped so far. 

Answer 1

The error seems to be something that should be a Windows standard class, so it may be that Windows needs repair here.

But first, one thing you could try that might help: reset Paratext. Hold shift when you start Paratext and click "Yes" to reset. This has cleared up odd Paratext behavior before.

(More on the reset function here:
https://paratext.org/ufaqs/how-do-i-reset-paratext/?highlight=reset)

If the reset does not work, you could try some Windows repair steps, for example what this page recommends:

https://www.computerworld.com/article/1674590/repair-windows-10-and-11-step-by-step-guide.html

3 possible steps, in increasing difficulty, if none of those help the final step is reinstalling Windows.

Comments

Thank you, I am trying to run Paratext on a Mac using Crossover. I probably should have mentioned that to begin with. I have been able to install Paratext after installing Visual C++ 2019 and NET Framework 4.8 into the bottle. I also had to manually update the registry to provide the correct ReleaseID.
Since I am not running a virtual Windows, many of the typical classes are not registered. I am hoping I can manually do this, or perhaps redirect these calls to the Mac equivalents.

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If you succeed in getting Paratext to run with Crossover, you will be the first. But perhaps you have discovered that it does not work.
I tried it some years ago and it failed. Most Mac users set up a virtual Windows with Parallels. You can save the cost of Parallels by using either VMWare Fusion (free license for non-commercial use)  or VirtualBox to create a virtual Windows machine. Up to this point our experience is that you need a real virtual machine, where Windows is installed from a Microsoft setup disk, for Paratext to run.