RegSvrHelper 1.0

WHY WAS IT WRITTEN:
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RegSvrHelper is a very tiny utility. I wrote it out of frustration with having to use the command line for 
registering DLLs thru RegSvr32.

WHAT IT DOES:
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RegSvrHelper helps you to register/Un-register DLLs etc. It does not try to replace the RegSvr32 utility that
comes with Windows, but simply 'helps' in using it by providing a file open dialog box to locate the DLL you
want to register or un-register. Once you locate your DLL, you can click on the Register or Un-Register button
to call RegSvr32 to do the actual registration on un-registration.

RegSvrHelper contains the usual windows conveniences you would expect. It remembers the last 20 files you
registered / un-registered, and also remembers the last directory you browsed to. (Note that you must actually
register / unregister a file for it to be added to the history list, simply browsing to it, or typing it in the
combo box will not do so)

Location of the ini file for maintaining history list:
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RegsvrHelper maintains its history list in an ini file called RegHelper.ini. By default this file is located at
c:\. If you would rather have this file placed somewhere else, you can specify an alternate directory path on
the command line.
e.g. RegSvrHelper d:\xyz\abc\

RegSvrHelper is meant to be unobtrusive. If it is not able to create the ini file, or read from it, it does not
throw up an error message, but simply moves on without the ini file; obviously you will not see your file
history if this happens.
So if you are specifying a path for the ini file, and the history list is not getting built up, check the path:
it probably does not exist, or there may not be write permissions to that path, etc.

Error Messages
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RegSvrHelper does not have any error messages of its own. If you see an error message when you click Register 
or Un-Register, it has been generated by RegSvr32. Refer to RegSvr32 related help in Microsoft help sources for 
explanations of these.


Terms of Use:
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RegSvrHelper is freeware. Its a pretty safe, simple utility, but you use it completely your own risk.

Requirements:
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RegSvrHelper is written in VB 6.0 and requires the usual VB DLLs to run (most importantly MSVBVM60.DLL). Since
it is aimed primarily at programmers, you will likely have this on your machine. If not, its available all over
the web.

Since it calls RegSvr32 to do the actual registration of DLLs, RegSvr32 needs to be in your path for
RegSvrHelper to be able to call it successfully

I've tested it on Win98, and Win NT

Acknowledgement:
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The icon for RegSvrHelper has been taken from Leo's Icon Archive at :
http://www.silverpoint.com/leo/lia/icon/fun/index.html
Check it out, its a nice collection of free graphics.


Farid.
5 April 2001
www.geocities.com/farid_a
farid_a@yahoo.com