Register ActiveX Controls - A Walkthrough

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Registering an ActiveX Control is very simple. Once a control is registered, it will be recognized by the system. The first step is getting the path to the ActiveX Control. You can do this a number of ways, such as browsing to the control location and copying the path in the Explorer address bar, or searching for the file. For this example I am going to register the PlayList.ocx control that is located in C:\Program Files\Moon Valley Software\CD Ultra\Bin\activex on my machine.

Windows has a program called "regsvr32" that is used to register controls. To register a control, go to Start->Run and enter regsvr32 followed by the path and name of the control you want to register. Place the path in quotations. For example, to register the PlayList.ocx control I would enter:

regsvr32 "C:\Program Files\Moon Valley Software\CD Ultra\Bin\activex\PlayList.ocx"

After pressing OK, you should see a message box saying it succeeded.

To un-register a control add "/u" after regsvr32. For example, to un-register the PlayList.ocx control I would enter:

regsvr32 /u "C:\Program Files\Moon Valley Software\CD Ultra\Bin\activex\PlayList.ocx"

After pressing OK, you should see a message box saying it succeeded.

To view a list of options for the regsvr32 program enter only "regsvr32" in the run box.