As of October 1, 2023 we no longer support the Contour Elite product.
The contents featured in the article below may still be of use to you however, and so will continue to be available.
A person reported getting an error message saying "COM class factory for component with CLID {......} failed due to the following error: 80040154" when he tried to open a lake. When he pushed "continue", the lake didn't appear.
The solution was to reinstall the application.