>>>And I am still not comfortable even reading the registry. I would rather one or two new customers get the ugly error message. Once they register the ActiveX (which is done via a nice Setup), the error will not occur.
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>>Reading the Registry is easy. There's a class in the FFC for it. Here's an article I wrote about it:
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>>http://www.tomorrowssolutionsllc.com/Articles/Working%20with%20the%20Registry.pdf
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>>Tamar
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>Thank you for the article. As I mentioned that it is not simply reading the registry that concerns me. But if my code reads the wrong key or registry and determines that the ActiveX is not registered, the customer will get a false error message. This, IMHO, could create more support issues than the ugly error message the customer gets when the ActiveX is not registered.

Once you figure out what key you're looking, why would you ever read the wrong key? This is like anything else; it's a matter of figuring out what you need and writing the code.

Tamar