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I made VB6 Applications and used some components like Winsock, Webbrowser and etc in my program.
Now when i run my application on any other computers, it says :

Component 'MSWINSCK.OCX' or one of its dependencies not correctly registered: a file is missing or invalid.


The Ways i tried:
I tried to copy mswinsck.ocx to System32 folder and try to open the application again, but this error comes again !
So i think i can register this component using :

Regsvr32 mswinsck.ocx

but i couldn't succeeded !
Also i don't want to use Installer programs. so

My Question:
How can i Register a Visual Basic 6 Component Manually ?

Hennes
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Try the following:

  1. Install the Visual Basic 6.0 SP6 run-time files.

  2. If you're on a Win7 64-bit PC then copy the DLLs, OCXs etc. to %windir%\SysWoW64 and not %windir%\System32 (see here for an explanation).

  3. Open an elevated/admin command prompt (search for cmd in the Start Menu search box, right-click, Run as administrator) and try to register the OCX using regsvr32.

  4. If none of this works you might need to add the VB6 licensing keys to the registry. See this KB article for details.

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Karan
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According to the Microsoft Support page How to register an ActiveX control (.ocx) manually, use:

Regsvr32 /s MSWINSCK.OCX
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