[AccessD] Windows 7

AFAIK it shouldn't matter where it resides when it is registered.  Registering provides the 
indirection to allow your app to just call the DLL.  The registry then "figures out" where the DLL 
is actually located.

John W. Colby
Colby Consulting

Reality is what refuses to go away
when you do not believe in it

On 9/13/2012 1:57 PM, Tony Septav wrote:
> Hey All
>
> Just bought a new machine, came with Windows 7.  A client asked me to update
> an application we have been constantly updating for the last 10 years.  What
> was MicroSoft thinking. A lot of my code and MicroSoft ActiveX controls
> don't work anymore. I used the Common Dialog, ImageList and TreeView
> controls (God help me what else). I had to download the ComCtl32.ocx and
> ComDlg32.ocx because they do not come with Windows 7. Now I am having no
> luck registering these items in the Windows/System32 folder. A couple of
> (online)  recommendations suggested they should be placed in the
> \Windows\SysWow64 folder and then registered, My question is, on the clients
> older machines they will not have a SysWow64 folder. Any suggestions how I
> can register these files from the System32 folder???
>
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>
> Thanks
>
> Tony Septav
>
> Nanaimo,BC
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