Update
I tried wOOdy's suggestions and managed to remove the older conntrols. However, after running two different registry cleaners (Wise Registry Cleaner and CCleaner), the "Unknown Type" entries are stll there (15 on my laptop and one on my desktop PC).
On my desktop I tried adding the Unknown Type control to a form and got "The other program is busy" dialog and got no further. I did try again after closing down all other running apps but that made no difference. Very puzzling and very frustrating ...
Paul Newton
On 01/05/2022 16:56, Jürgen Wondzinski wrote:
A totally uninformed way to get rid of those entries: a) In that VFP options listbox you get shown everything from the Registry hive "Computer\HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT" or "Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes", which also has a "CLSID" as subnode. b) Use that curly brackets UID from that CLSID-Subnode to search for the real class data. Here you find a subnode "InprocServer32" which points you to the real file (normally a dll or ocx). c) Check if that's still available at that stored path. If not, delete all trailing Keys (the entries on the left tree), which have the CLSID reference to that UID. d) if there's no entry for that CLSID UID, then you can also delete that first finding.
e) always do a Registry backup first (yea, "Backups are for wimps" :) ) f) there are some tools ("Registry Cleaner") which can do those deletes "automagically", but they mostly do also other stuff, thus be careful.
wOOdy
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: ProFoxprofox-bounces@leafe.com Im Auftrag von Paul Newton Gesendet: Sonntag, 1. Mai 2022 16:40 An:profox@leafe.com Betreff: VFP9 Tools~Options~Controls~ActiveX controls
Hi all
Two things in the dialog referred to in the subject:
The list shows some controls which are of an older version which I no longer need or use. For example AXControl V6 and AXControl V8. I want to somehow remove the older controls from the list (they do not appear as Installed Controls in the ActiveX catalog of the Component Gallery - even when I refresh the controls list)
There are several controls listed as "Unknown Type". I have no idea what they are or where they have come from but I would like to get rid of them as well.
Any help or suggestions will be much appreciated.
Paul Newton
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