Register/Unregister Active X Components from the Context Menu

Register/Unregister Active X Components from the Context Menu

Author:	Greg
Category:	Registry
Type:	Snippets
Difficulty:	Intermediate

Version Compatibility:

Visual Basic 5   Visual Basic 6

More information: Copy/Paste the below into notepad and save it as “something.reg”. Run it and you’ll be able to registre/unregister ocxs and dlls with the context menu (i.e., by right clicking on the file in windows explorer).

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Instructions: Copy the declarations and code below and paste directly into your VB project.

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REGEDIT4

;  This adds the ability to Right-Click on a .dll or .ocx
;  and get the Register / <b style=”color:black;background-color:#a0ffff”>UnRegister</b> options.

; ==========
; .DLL files
; ==========

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.dll]
“Content Type”=”application/<b style=”color:black;background-color:#ff9999″>x</b>-msdownload”
@=”dllfile”

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\dllfile]
@=”Application Extension”

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\dllfile\Shell\Register\command]
@=”regsvr32.exe \”%1\”"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\dllfile\Shell\<b style="color:black;background-color:#a0ffff">UnRegister</b>\command]
@=”regsvr32.exe /u \”%1\”"

; ==========
; .OCX files
; ==========

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.ocx]
@=”ocxfile”

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ocxfile]
@=”OCX”

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ocxfile\Shell\Register\command]
@=”regsvr32.exe \”%1\”"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ocxfile\Shell\<b style="color:black;background-color:#a0ffff">UnRegister</b>\command]
@=”regsvr32.exe /u \”%1\”"

; End