Many thanks - that should keep me busy for a couple of hours ... Paul
Get Outlook for Androidhttps://aka.ms/AAb9ysg ________________________________ From: ProfoxTech profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com on behalf of Jürgen Wondzinski juergen@wondzinski.de Sent: Sunday, May 1, 2022 4:56:42 PM To: profoxtech@leafe.com profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: AW: VFP9 Tools~Options~Controls~ActiveX controls
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: ProFox profox-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:
1. 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)
2. 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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