ACC: Regsv32a.exe Available on MSL

ID: Q161983

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Access versions 7.0, 97

SUMMARY

Moderate: Requires basic macro, coding, and interoperability skills.

Regsvr32.exe is an application that is used to register dynamic-link libraries (DLLs) and ActiveX controls (formerly called OLE Custom Controls) in the Microsoft Windows 95 and Microsoft Windows NT registries. For example, to manually register the Sample.ocx ActiveX control, you type the following at the MS-DOS prompt:

   c:\Regsvr32.exe Sample.ocx

NOTE: This assumes that Regsvr32.exe and Sample.ocx are both in the root directory of drive C (c:\).

Regsvr32.exe has the following command line switches:

   /u - Unregister server
   /s - Silent; displays no message boxes
   /c - Console output

Regsvr32.exe is contained within a self extracting exe file called Regsv32a.exe.

 ~ Regsv32a.exe (size: 29959 bytes) 
                is available for download from the Microsoft Software
   Library. It contains the following files:

   Regsvr32.exe    The Regsvr32.exe application.
   Regsv32a.txt    A text file containing information and instructions.

For more information about downloading files from the Microsoft Software Library, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

   ARTICLE-ID: Q119591
   TITLE     : How to Obtain Microsoft Support Files from Online Services

Additional query words:

Keywords          : kbprg
Version           : 97
Platform          : WINDOWS
Hardware          : x86
Issue type        : kbinfo

Last Reviewed: November 20, 1998