>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

Holy Cat! I have been having this registry error with my VPF app for the last decade! I have usually solved it by doing an install of MS Office prior to putting my app on the system. With 64-bit Office, this key doesn't get written, so the problem's come back.

Thanks a whole lot Doug. Now smiling again and running my app on Windows 7 in Parallels on Mountain Lion. I thought it was a goner.

Thank you thank you thank you.
John