>>I'd venture a guess that some or all of the registry entries involved are assigned under the current HKEY_CURRENT_USER (which is really just the current hive of HKEY_USERS in effect at the moment.) If that's the case, you'd have to register the object for each userid; it'd get ugly fast.
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>Fraid not! It updates HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Licenses I'm not sure if it creates a new key or updates an existing one.

One of our users was having a related problem.

Look at the MSDN knowledge base for entry 'Q192693' regarding instantiating an ActiveX control at runtime (i.e. CREATEOBJECT, .AddObject). There is a bug in VFP6 when instantiating at runtime where it will give an "Appropriate license for this class not found." The article shows a workaround.