FIX: Visual Basic 4 Custom Controls Return Error After install

ID: Q166681

The information in this article applies to:

SYMPTOMS

After installing Visual InterDev 1.0, when selecting Custom Controls from the Visual Basic 4.0 Tools menu, you receive the following error several times:

Object server not correctly registered.


CAUSE

Visual InterDev causes this problem by registering some of the files it installs in a way that is incompatible with Visual Basic 4.0. This problem does not harm the machine, Visual InterDev, or Visual Basic.


RESOLUTION

You may download a RegClean tool provided by the Visual Basic group. After running this registry cleaning tool the problem will not occur. You may obtain more information on this tool in the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q147769 INFO: RegClean 4.1a Description and General Issues
The article references a self-extracting file, RegCln41.exe, on the Microsoft Software Library.


STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. This bug has been fixed in Visual InterDev 6.0.

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

  1. Install Visual InterDev 1.0.


  2. Install Visual Basic 4.0.


  3. Open Visual Basic.


  4. From the Tools menu, select Custom Controls.



REFERENCES

The following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base describes the registry clean update tool from the Visual Basic group for cleaning the registry:

Q147769 "Updated Version of RegClean 4.1 Available"
For the latest Knowledge Base articles and other support information on Visual InterDev and Active Server Pages, see the following page on the Microsoft Technical Support site:
http://support.microsoft.com/support/vinterdev/


Keywords          : kbinterop kbActiveX kbCtrl kbVisID kbVisID100 kbVisID100bug kbVisID600fix kbGrpASP 
Version           : WINDOWS:1.0
Platform          : WINDOWS 
Issue type        : kbbug

Last Reviewed: May 7, 1999