Thanks George:

I guess I'll punt. I already track them from within vfp i just wanted a way to be "sure" that everything was installed properly from within my program.

scott

>Well, you can check the registry for the fully file name in the
>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Shared Tools\< file name > key. Of
>course, this only applies to those controls from MS. Finding the license
>(CLSID) would be very time consuming, since you'd have to enumerate every
>license under the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID node looking for the fully qualified
>file name. Even that won't do the trick 100% of the time. It's perfectly
>possible (and I've experienced this) to have a registry entry for the control,
>and have it been incorrect. About the only thing I can recommend, would be to
>track the current installed ActiveX controls and their versions in a table.
>When a new one was to be installed, I'd suggest a special setup to do it,
>created with the setup wizard. You could check the versions, and run the new
>setup routine if a newer version was available. The only other possibility
>would be to run regsvr32 in silent mode (with the /s switch).