Problems with 2000 DB in 2003

[Alstro]

I put together a database in Access 2000 for someone who helpfully upgraded to Access 2003 before I could deliver. On delivery I found that some of the code referenced "Microsoft Windows Common Controls-2 6.0 (SP4)" - a file called MSCOMCT2.OCX - which was not present on the recipient's PC, and so several features wouldn't work.

I found the file from somewhere, and installed it on the PC. However, I now get error messages saying that I don't have a licence to use ActiveX controls and as a result can't get various of my forms to work!

Can anyone tell me if these things are related or not, and what on earth I can do to get this DB to work with 2003?

Cheers

 

[Pat Hartman]

The ActiveX control needs to be properly registered on the target machine. You can't just copy the file.

 

[Alstro]

Hi Pat,

Thanks for the reply. After doing a bit more searching on the site I realised that this is not a particularly new question, so thanks for taking the time.

I did register MSCOMCT2.OCX using the following command:

regsvr32 \windows\system32\MSCOMCT2.OCX
(I altered the path to suit XP, though I can't remember precisely what that was right now.)

Is this the right command? I assume it did something useful because the error messages I was getting before I did this were different to those I received afterwards.