Register and unregister components with context menus
The stardard method to register and unregister ActiveX component is running the REGSVR32 utility, which forces you to bring up the Start|Run dialog and manually type the command line. A much better approach is to have the Register and Unregister commands right in the context menu that appears when you right-click a DLL, EXE, or OCX file in the Explorer window.
To create these menu commands, copy the following text to the clipboard, paste it into an editor (such as Notepad) and save it to a file with a .reg extension, such as ActiveX.Reg. Then double-click the file, and voila!, you'll be able to register and unregister all types of ActiveX components by right-clicking on them.
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