Failure to register WSPELL.OCX
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When an ActiveX (OCX) control such as WSpell is installed on a target machine, it must be registered (for example, using regsvr32). Under some circumstances, registration may fail. Note that this problem is not specific to WSpell; it can apply to the registration of any OCX. According to Microsoft, registration failure is caused by two conditions on the target system: 1) Missing or out of date DLLs; 2) problems with the system registry.
The list of DLLs used by WSpell (and the DLLs those DLLs use, etc.) is provided below. If you are experiencing problems registering WSpell on a target machine, check that the system in question has the listed DLLs available, that the DLLs are located in the search path (e.g., in the WINDOWS or WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory), and that the versions are equal to or later than the versions listed here:
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mfc42.dll (version 6.0.8168.0)
- msvcrt.dll (version 6.0.8168.0)
- olepro32.dll (5.0.4261.0)
Files mfc42.dll and msvcrt.dll are distributed with WSpell and are installed in the WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory when the WSpell software development kit is installed on the development machine. To obtain the other files, go to http://support.microsoft.com/support and search for Vbrun60.exe from the downloadable files. The mfc42.dll and olepro32.dll files have the OleSelfRegister attribute, which means they should be registered. If you copy these files onto the target system, have your installer register them, or run regsvr32 on them. For more information on regsvr32, see MSKB article Q146219.
Another cause of registration failure is errors in the system registry. Microsoft has made a utility called RegClean available which solves the problem and allows OCX controls (such as WSpell) to be registered successfully. RegClean is described in MSKB article Q147769. According to the MSKB article, the latest version of RegClean should be used, not the version shipped with Visual Basic. The article describes how to obtain the latest version of RegClean.
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