Registering an ocx or dll file

[Anarchy]

**Registering an ocx or dll file.**

Ok this is my first tutorial and i have seen a lot of people asking how to solve this problem and i also had the same one, so it should keep the question board empty of questions asking how to solve it.

**Must be logged in as an administrator**

Let’s go !
1.  Are you using Windows **Vista**? If so keep reading, if not skip to step 5, if so keep reading.
2.  Open the control Panel and Search For **UAC** (user account control)*


3.  Click on the one search result “**turn user account control on or off**”.
4.    You should then be taken to a window with not much in it, explaining the important of **UAC** and the results of it being turned off ( if you don’t trust me telling you to turn it off read it and see what it does), un check the box and then click ok.


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I think it requires a reboot after clicking ok for the UAC to be recognized as disabled, so to find
your way back to this page easily bookmark now, or write the following steps down, it’s up to you.
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5.  Ok this is where the non Vista users should start reading ( if they are having this problem) , and Vista readers should continue reading fro after they have disabled **UAC** as we still need to register the file.

6.  Browse to the File that is not registering properly, hold shift and right click, and select Open With.


7.  It is highly unlikely that the correct application that you need to register the file is there by default but if it us Lucky you!

The file we are looking for is “**Regsvr32.exe**” and is located in _**c:/windows/system32/**_ for those who need to find it manually.


8.  Run your file with that application and you should get a message confirming that it has been correctly installed.


9.  Still not working? Check you have correctly disabled **UAC** (steps 2 – 4)

*For a very detailed description with questions and answers about UAC here is a good website. [http://www.jimmah.com/vista/security/uac.aspx](http://www.jimmah.com/vista/security/uac.aspx)

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using cmd.exe or run.exe to register.

open either cmd.exe or run.exe and enter

regsvr32 making sure the get the correct path name of the file you are registering.

[Credits to Crimson]

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Have I missed something out? Pm and ill edit this post,

Thanks for Reading. Good Luck with your games.

[Alster]

Or you could just go into Start>Run then type:

regsvr32

[Anarchy]

@Crimson:

> Or you could just go into Start>Run then type:
>
> regsvr32

yeah but you still need UAC disabled, and this is aimed at people new to eclipse, and they might not be very experienced with command prompt, run.exe and other features, so by using windows explorer its easier for them to understand and follow, but thanks, ill add it to my post