Brian,

Thank you very much for the reply. It sounds like you are recommending that I write a little VFP routine that copies each dll into the Windows\System folder and runs RegSvr32 for each one.

If I might ask a couple follow up questions...

One small detail: Is there any reason to prefer or use Windows\System vs. Windows\System32 as the target folder? Do I have to make a distinction based on the OS (Win98, Win2K, WinXP)?

One larger detail: What if the user has earlier versions of Dynazip dlls installed somewhere else? Should I look for them and remove them? The DZ manual implies that this would be a good idea, saying more recent dlls are backward compatible with earlier ones. But would this foul up whatever application had been using them?

Thanks again,


>ActiveX controls need to be registered in the computers registry in a few key locations to allow for the proper instantiation and type library binding.
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>It is possible that depending on the location of the controls and the nature of your application that the programming engine registered them for you.
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>Technically, the registration process for a control is to either use RegSvr32 or load the library into memory then using a function pointer Invoke the DLLRegisterServer function to cause the control to create the appropriate registry entries.
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>It is best practice to ALWAYS register the controls on the machine and to place those controls in the SYSTEM directory on the target machine to avoid version conflicts.