Several months ago, I attempted the same task, and had the same problem. I wanted to distribute a compiled app using the Active X control. The control and printing worked fine on my machine. In this particular case, I only needed to distribute the application one time, to one user. And in this case, the client was a user of Visual Accountmate Accounting, which uses Crystal. What I realized, after many many unproductive hours, was that any machine that had the Visual Accountmate Runtime installed, would be able to run the Active X control. So, Accountmate's installation routine, therefore, must installl/register the necessary DLL's, etc. So, in this particular case I indirectly solved my problem, and got the user up and running.

Now, however, I need to distribute an application to 20 separate users, on laptops. And I fear that I will have the same problem again.

This time, I have started to research the use of the RDC (Report Designer Component). I am trying to determine if it can be used instead of the OCX.
Crystal's documentation on the RDC makes a big deal over how much more advanced the RDC is over the OCX. The OCX however, does everything I need it to, and I would be happy to use it, if I can be sure it will install via an 'easy' setup routine. Also, the majority of the installations will be on Win2k Prof. I have no idea if that will be an issue.

>>I am using Crystal Reports Active X included in my form and it's all part of my EXE that I am including on my Distribution Disk. I make the disks without a hitch. When I run Setup to install my distribution disk, I get CRYSTL32.OCX was unable to register itself in the system registry. And pressed OK. Later I also got AED.EXE was unable to register itself in the system registry.
>>
>>What is wrong and how can I fix it?
>>
>>I went back and repeated the build distribution disk process and chose some additional Crystal Report Active X (OCX files), but still got the same errors. Does anyone know when the Crystal Report OLE object is placed on a form so that I can run a Crystal Report by pressing a button on my form to Print a Crystal Report, what Crystal OCX files do I need in my distribution disk set?
>>
>>And what's the syntax for the Windows 98 Regsrvr command if I want to register my OCX files in the Windows registry myself?
>>
>>TIA!
>
>Steve
>
>I often found that raw win95/98 does NOT install certain files needed for registering ActiveX components.
>
>One file that comes to mind is OC30.DLL
>There are a few other lik MFC42.dll
>
>I usually run a batch file first that copies these files to the WIN/sys directory and then the install proceeds and the OCX's are registered.
>
>Check that the following files are on the client's computer as well.
>
>OC30.DLL
>OLE2.DLL
>MSVCRT20.DLL
>MFCANS32.DLL
>COMPOBJ.DLL
>STORAGE.DLL
>OLE2DISP.DLL
>OLE2NLS.DLL
>TYPELIB.DLL
>
>Also you may need to register some of the files:
>REGSVR32 c:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\OC30.DLL
>
>etc.
>
>HTH
>
>Bernard