Thanks Doug,
That worked, but one thing of interest is that there is no Licences key under HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT on this new 64bit WIN7 install, I wonder how MS are handling licencing with 64bit?
>Hi Neil.
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>>I have manually unregistered and re-registered the ocx with elevated privileges i.e. regsvr32 c:\windows\syswow64\mscomctl.ocx but I still get the error.
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>Oops, I forgot the error was a license error. Create a registry entry under HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Licenses with a key name of ED4B87C4-9F76-11d1-8BF7-0000F8754DA1 and set the default value to knlggnmntgggrninthpgmnngrhqhnnjnslsh.
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>Doug
Regards N Mc Donald