Runtime error 13 is found to be experienced by the user while working with the program that is designed with Visual basic. The common error message that is encountered while this error takes place is “Type mismatch”. This error is frequently experienced while the system gets crashed. This unusual behavior could be due to the malevolent activity of the malware program infecting the system files leading into the system malfunctioning.

This runtime error while strikes up on the system it generates the following issue on the system that are mentioned below;-

• Blue screen of death issue is found to be raised frequently.
• Unexpected system shutdown after sudden system freezes up.

Runtime error 13 triggers on the screen with specific code and description as well under a dialog box that if turned into severe situation requires rebooting the system as well. The basic reason behind the corruption is the corruption or missing of any dll file due to which constant error message keeps beeping up on the screen freezing the other application that is currently running on the system.

Thus resolution of the error is quite necessary in order to keep the system prevent from getting dumped. However one can do so if the instructions that are mentioned below are followed carefully:-

• As this runtime error is found to be occurred due to the corruption encountered by some threat thus if possible with the help of the antivirus application remove the malware from the system permanently from the system along with removing the associated files.


• There might be any application that is causing such fatal error therefore in order to fix runtime error 13 user is required to reinstall that software and then verify whether the issue get resolved or not.


• The registry database file corruption is required to be fixed with the help of registry cleaning application. Most of the anti virus programs do not provide the facility of registry cleaning feature. Therefore it is required to have proper registry cleaner application so as to fix runtime error 13 and for this purpose Windows registry cleaner application is available online that features the quick removal of invalid as well as useless entries of the registry database file along fixing the entire registry errors there by.