>>This is MSWINSCK.OCX (not DLL), it usually locates in System32 folder.
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>>Check this link, it looks they were discussing similar issue:
>>http://www-tcsn.experts-exchange.com/Programming/Programming_Languages/Visual_Basic/Q_20655715.html
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>I have read the thread several times from the link you provided. I do not have an ActiveX Control on my form which links to Winsock. I automatically send an email without the user knowing from data in the form text boxes and labels. When I Create the object,
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>oSocket = create( 'mswinsock.winsock' )
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>, the object is created from the mswinsock.dll (unless I am completly missing something). I do not have a mswinsock.ocx file on my machine. Do I still follow the logic from the other thread?
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>TIA
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>Wes

Most Windows PC's have both the DLL and the OCX - on my XP Pro SP 1 I have MSWinSck.OCX (107 kb) MSWSck.DLL (223 kb) and a WinSock.DLL (only 3 kb). If I could be bothered to fire up the dependancy walker, I bet we will see that the OCX is a COM wrapper for functionality in the DLL.