visual studio - Object Library Not Registered When Adding Windows Common Controls 6.0

Question

I am trying to install Visual Studio 6 on a Windows 7 32bit machine.

The OS intall was from bare metal.

I followed the instructions mentioned here (which I have used before)

The install went fine with no errors reported but when I try to add the Microsoft Windows Common Controls 6.0 to the toolbox I get the "Object Library Not Registered" Error.

I tried doing a manual uninstall and reinstall of the OCX which both succeeded but I still have the same error.

I tried installing SP6 and that installed without error (and updated the OCX to a newer version) but I still have the same problem.

EDIT:

As mentioned below on further investigation it seems that the IE10 update breaks the MSCOMCTL.ocx. However I also think this is something to do with the order because I have another Windows 7 machine with IE10 that works fine.

Answer 1

On 32-bit machines:

cd C:WindowsSystem32
regsvr32 mscomctl.ocx
regtlib msdatsrc.tlb

or on 64 bit machines:

cd C:WindowsSysWOW64
regsvr32 mscomctl.ocx
regtlib msdatsrc.tlb

These need to be run as administrator.