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Re: What's the reason for comctl32.dll + comctl32.ocx in Win7 SysWOW64 folder?

From	GS <gs@somewhere.net>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.basic.visual.misc, microsoft.public.vb.general.discussion
Subject	Re: What's the reason for comctl32.dll + comctl32.ocx in Win7 SysWOW64 folder?
Date	2014-05-12 18:51 -0400
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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> On 09/05/2014 23:06, GS wrote:
>> I persist 100% portability with my VBA projects as well. Since OCXs
>> can't be used reg-free in MS Office VBA projects a manifest just 
>> won't
>> work (as I'm sure you know).
>>
>> My resolve for this issue is this...
>>
>>   my VBA project will register mscomctl.ocx at startup ONLY IF it 
>> does
>>   not pre-exist on the host machine. Otherwise it uses existing
>>   'registered' ocx.
>>
>>   IF registered at startup, the ocx is unregistered at shutdown.
>>
>>   The ocx 'lives' in the project's install folder.
>
> You do realise that this requires admin access and implies (to the 
> user) "not truly portable", even if you undo it afterwards?
> Especially as the elevation prompt says ""Do you want to all the 
> following program to make changes to this computer?"
>
> Also, what happens when the office application crashes?
> They get left registered in your application folder, causing 
> collateral confusion to anything else that may want to use it.

Deanna,
Thanks for your comments. Further developments/discoveries have been 
made concerning the 'Common' controls install with MS Office. Turns out 
if they're missing at startup, Excel reinstalls them during its startup 
initialization. Thus doing anything with MSO files is abandoned, 
leaving only my 3rd party dependancies to handle if missing.

-- 
Garry

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What's the reason for comctl32.dll + comctl32.ocx in Win7  SysWOW64 folder? GS <gs@somewhere.net> - 2014-05-08 14:14 -0400
  Re: What's the reason for comctl32.dll + comctl32.ocx in Win7  SysWOW64 folder? "MikeD" <nobody@nowhere.edu> - 2014-05-08 15:38 -0400
    Re: What's the reason for comctl32.dll + comctl32.ocx in Win7  SysWOW64 folder? GS <gs@somewhere.net> - 2014-05-08 17:08 -0400
      Re: What's the reason for comctl32.dll + comctl32.ocx in Win7  SysWOW64 folder? GS <gs@somewhere.net> - 2014-05-08 17:19 -0400
  Re: What's the reason for comctl32.dll + comctl32.ocx in Win7  SysWOW64 folder? ralph <nt_consulting@yahoo.com> - 2014-05-08 15:30 -0500
    Re: What's the reason for comctl32.dll + comctl32.ocx in Win7  SysWOW64 folder? ralph <nt_consulting@yahoo.com> - 2014-05-08 15:49 -0500
    Re: What's the reason for comctl32.dll + comctl32.ocx in Win7  SysWOW64 folder? GS <gs@somewhere.net> - 2014-05-08 17:17 -0400
      Re: What's the reason for comctl32.dll + comctl32.ocx in Win7  SysWOW64 folder? ralph <nt_consulting@yahoo.com> - 2014-05-08 21:09 -0500
        Re: What's the reason for comctl32.dll + comctl32.ocx in Win7  SysWOW64 folder? GS <gs@somewhere.net> - 2014-05-09 00:12 -0400
          Re: What's the reason for comctl32.dll + comctl32.ocx in Win7  SysWOW64 folder? GS <gs@somewhere.net> - 2014-05-09 08:15 -0400
            Re: What's the reason for comctl32.dll + comctl32.ocx in Win7  SysWOW64 folder? ralph <nt_consulting@yahoo.com> - 2014-05-09 16:00 -0500
              Re: What's the reason for comctl32.dll + comctl32.ocx in Win7  SysWOW64 folder? GS <gs@somewhere.net> - 2014-05-09 18:06 -0400
                Re: What's the reason for comctl32.dll + comctl32.ocx in Win7  SysWOW64 folder? GS <gs@somewhere.net> - 2014-05-09 19:26 -0400
                Re: What's the reason for comctl32.dll + comctl32.ocx in Win7  SysWOW64 folder? Deanna Earley <dee.earley@icode.co.uk> - 2014-05-12 09:00 +0100
                Re: What's the reason for comctl32.dll + comctl32.ocx in Win7  SysWOW64 folder? GS <gs@somewhere.net> - 2014-05-12 18:51 -0400
              Re: What's the reason for comctl32.dll + comctl32.ocx in Win7  SysWOW64 folder? GS <gs@somewhere.net> - 2014-05-09 19:55 -0400
            Re: What's the reason for comctl32.dll + comctl32.ocx in Win7  SysWOW64 folder? "MikeD" <nobody@nowhere.edu> - 2014-05-09 18:09 -0400
              Re: What's the reason for comctl32.dll + comctl32.ocx in Win7  SysWOW64 folder? GS <gs@somewhere.net> - 2014-05-09 18:52 -0400
                Re: What's the reason for comctl32.dll + comctl32.ocx in Win7  SysWOW64 folder? GS <gs@somewhere.net> - 2014-05-09 19:48 -0400
                Re: What's the reason for comctl32.dll + comctl32.ocx in Win7  SysWOW64 folder? ralph <nt_consulting@yahoo.com> - 2014-05-09 20:34 -0500
                Re: What's the reason for comctl32.dll + comctl32.ocx in Win7  SysWOW64 folder? GS <gs@somewhere.net> - 2014-05-09 22:33 -0400
                Re: What's the reason for comctl32.dll + comctl32.ocx in Win7  SysWOW64 folder? "CoderX" <coder@x.com> - 2014-05-12 15:40 -0400
              Re: What's the reason for comctl32.dll + comctl32.ocx in Win7  SysWOW64 folder? GS <gs@somewhere.net> - 2014-05-09 20:44 -0400
  Re: What's the reason for comctl32.dll + comctl32.ocx in Win7  SysWOW64 folder? GS <gs@somewhere.net> - 2014-05-09 22:47 -0400
    Re: What's the reason for comctl32.dll + comctl32.ocx in Win7  SysWOW64 folder? GS <gs@somewhere.net> - 2014-05-10 19:55 -0400
      Re: What's the reason for comctl32.dll + comctl32.ocx in Win7  SysWOW64 folder? "Peter T" <askformy@gmail.com> - 2014-05-12 16:19 +0100
        Re: What's the reason for comctl32.dll + comctl32.ocx in Win7  SysWOW64 folder? GS <gs@somewhere.net> - 2014-05-12 19:07 -0400
          Re: What's the reason for comctl32.dll + comctl32.ocx in Win7  SysWOW64 folder? "Peter T" <askformy@gmail.com> - 2014-05-13 12:38 +0100
            Re: What's the reason for comctl32.dll + comctl32.ocx in Win7  SysWOW64 folder? GS <gs@somewhere.net> - 2014-05-13 15:40 -0400
              Re: What's the reason for comctl32.dll + comctl32.ocx in Win7  SysWOW64 folder? "Peter T" <askformy@gmail.com> - 2014-05-14 16:40 +0100
                Re: What's the reason for comctl32.dll + comctl32.ocx in Win7  SysWOW64 folder? Deanna Earley <dee.earley@icode.co.uk> - 2014-05-14 17:13 +0100
                Re: What's the reason for comctl32.dll + comctl32.ocx in Win7  SysWOW64 folder? "Peter T" <askformy@gmail.com> - 2014-05-14 17:47 +0100
                Re: What's the reason for comctl32.dll + comctl32.ocx in Win7  SysWOW64 folder? Deanna Earley <dee.earley@icode.co.uk> - 2014-05-15 08:59 +0100
                Re: What's the reason for comctl32.dll + comctl32.ocx in Win7  SysWOW64 folder? "Peter T" <askformy@gmail.com> - 2014-05-15 12:55 +0100
                Re: What's the reason for comctl32.dll + comctl32.ocx in Win7  SysWOW64 folder? GS <gs@somewhere.net> - 2014-05-14 13:00 -0400

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