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I am having quite a time with this slider control that uses mscomctl.ocx. On my development machine, I have deleted an old control in favor of a newer one (I was unable to get a copy of the old ocx file to satisfy the old slider requirement).

VB removed the old reference and I replaced it with Microsoft Windows Common Controls 6.0. I saved the project and compiled the exe. What I am getting when I transfer that exe to a different machine is mscomctl.ocx is not found.

Would I need to copy that ocx file over to the new machine and register it?

NaN
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    `Would I need to copy that ocx file over to the new machine and register it?` - Yes. – GSerg Nov 14 '19 at 15:33
  • Thank you, GSerg. I'll try that and see what happens. Thank you again. – NaN Nov 14 '19 at 15:35
  • Just create a proper installation package. Copying libraries willy-nilly is scary enough, randomly registering libraries manually is worse. – Bob77 Nov 14 '19 at 22:50
  • Possible duplicate of [MSCOMCTL.ocx missing Windows 10](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39251880/mscomctl-ocx-missing-windows-10) – StayOnTarget Nov 15 '19 at 12:27

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First Check your service pack version. Install Service pack 6 on vb6. It will solve your issue. If the problem exist then download MSCOMCTL.OCX file sp6 control from internet and copy and paste in windows/syswow64 folder. and register the file using command prompt. c/windows/syswow64 : regsvr32 MSCOMCTL.OCX it will solve your error.

Otherwise right click on your project delete the object of MSCOMCTL.OCX control and reopen the project and select the component again.

sameer bhokare
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