XL5: Incorrect Reg.dat Entries After Automatic RegistrationID: Q117849
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If you rename the Microsoft Excel program file, Excel.exe, to a different
file name, or if you rename the Reg.dat file, or if you move the Microsoft
Excel program files to a different drive or directory, the Reg.dat file
contains incorrect entries.
The behavior of Microsoft Excel should not be affected by these incorrect
entries; however, the behavior of a Microsoft Excel object in another
program may be affected. The specific effect that these incorrect entries
have on the behavior of a Microsoft Excel object in another program is
unknown. The following are symptoms you may encounter:
When you install Microsoft Excel, the program is registered correctly in
the Reg.dat file. If you merge the Excel5.reg file into the Reg.dat file,
the program is registered correctly in the Reg.dat file.
The incorrect entries are written to the Reg.dat file only if Microsoft
Excel must automatically register itself in the Reg.dat file. This occurs
when Microsoft Excel is not already registered in the Reg.dat file.
Automatic registration occurs only when you run Microsoft Excel and one of
the following conditions is true:
To register Microsoft Excel again in the Reg.dat file after any of the above conditions is true, run the Microsoft Excel Setup program and either click Reinstall All (to repeat the previous installation) or click Remove/Add to remove Microsoft Excel, and then run Setup to reinstall it.
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. We are researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.
The entries in Reg.dat that are listed in this section are incorrect when
the registration information for Microsoft Excel is automatically
generated.
NOTE: These entries are shown as they appear when you run Regedit.exe using
the verbose switch (/v). The complete path for each entry is the following:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{00020810-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}
- DataFormats
- DefaultFile = Biff5
- GetSet
- 1 = 1,1,1
- 2 = 1,16,1
- 3 = 1,32,1
The correct entries should have four parameters, for example, as in the
following:
- DataFormats
- DefaultFile = Biff5
- GetSet
- 2 = 1,1,1,1
- 1 = 2,1,16,1
- 0 = 3,1,32,1
- Conversion
- Readwritable
- Main=Biff5
- Readable
- Main=Biff5,ExcelWorksheet
- Conversion
- Readable
- Main=Biff5,ExcelWorksheet
- MiscStatus
- MiscStatus = 0
(for ExcelWorksheet)
- MiscStatus = 1
(for ExcelChart)
Additional query words: crash ole linking embedding
Keywords : kbole xlwin
Version : 5.0 5.0c
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbprb
Last Reviewed: July 29, 1999