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Reverse CreateObject in VBScript

Hi,

I have an old vbscript the runs the command, foo = CreateObject(x.y). I want to run this script on another computer (which it doesn't run on now btw) but I don't know which dll's I should register, or what else I should do, to run the CreateObject command.

How can I figure out what dll's I need to copy into the new computer, and do I need to register them, what else should be done?

Or maybe they are OCX's or something?

Cheers.

+3  A: 

You should start looking at your machine registry for your HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\x.y\CLSID key.

With that {GUID}, go to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{GUID}\InprocServer32 key

Rubens Farias  2009-12-08 12:12:52
That's how create object is implemented? Cool.
Haim Bender  2009-12-08 12:15:09
Not that cool; from VB6 times, I learned to hate registry =)
Rubens Farias  2009-12-08 12:16:46
Found it, so now i just export all the registry settings and the dll's and copy them over to the other computer?
Haim Bender  2009-12-08 12:23:21
you'll need also to register that component with `regsvr32`
Rubens Farias  2009-12-08 12:30:07
You should not need to export registry settings, copy the DLL and register it as per Rubens Farias' comment.
Remou  2009-12-08 15:15:10
Of course it might not be as simply as that. The dll found in the InprocServer32 may itself also have dependancies on other COM library files and standard dlls.
AnthonyWJones  2009-12-08 17:59:51

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