I strongly recommend you to use RegClean.exe (you can download it from the
M$ web site) before you mess around with your registry by hand.
RegClean make a back up copy of what it deletes, so you can take a look
at what it did and you can restore it later if you want.

m.


> -----Original Message-----
> From:	antonydeepak@y... [SMTP:antonydeepak@y...]
> Sent:	Thursday, June 21, 2001 7:53 AM
> To:	professional vb
> Subject:	[pro_vb] Strange problem......
> 
> Hi all,
> 
>    I came across a strange problem in another system. When i tried to 
> reference an ocx control in a VB project i found multiple instance of that
> 
> control. With the idea of clearing this i searched for that particular ocx
> 
> and found some 10 matches. (I have no idea of how they came there, but 
> they were there, mostly in different locations.)
>    I tried to unregister all of them first and then delete them. Then i 
> got another copy of the ocx from the network and registered the control in
> 
> a particular location. I also made sure that there is only one copy of 
> that control in my system.
>    But again i got the same number of instance's in the component window. 
> Could anyone shed any light on this. I suspect this could be bug or some 
> thing. but i am not sure...
> 
> Cheers
> Antony