PRB: "Object Server Not Correctly Registered" Error in VB4-32

 Last reviewed: March 17, 1998
Article ID: Q161827
The information in this article applies to:
  • Control Creation and Enterprise Editions of Microsoft Visual Basic, for Windows, version 4.0, 5.0

SYMPTOMS

When you choose Custom Controls from the Tools menu in Microsoft Visual Basic 4.0, the following error message appears: 

   Object not correctly registered
The problem is caused by the registration process of other components within the system registry. This article explains one cause of the problem.

CAUSE

If you install a custom control developed with the Control Creation Edition of Visual Basic 5.0, an erroneous CLSID key is added to your registry that could be causing this error message.

RESOLUTION

In addition to the bona fide registry key for the control developed with the Control Creation Edition of Visual Basic 5.0, the following erroneous extra registry key is created when you install a control developed with the Control Creation Edition of Visual Basic 5.0: 

   HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT
                    \CLSID
                          \{0DE86A52-2BAA-11CF-A229-00AA003D7352}
This key causes a blank item to appear in the list of ActiveX controls when it is displayed in Access95 and Visual Basic 4.0. The key also causes the "object server not correctly registered" error message to appear when you open the Custom Controls dialog box in the Control Creation Edition of Visual Basic 4.0. You may either delete the key manually with the RegEdit Utility or use the utility RegClean 4.1 or greater to process through your registry automatically and correct this type of problem as well as other common problems that plague the system registry from time to time.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. We are researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

REFERENCES

For additional information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: 

   ARTICLE-ID: Q147769
   TITLE     : Updated Version of RegClean 4.1a Available

Keywords          : VB4ALL VB4WIN vb5all VBKBCtrl VBKBError VBKBRegistry kbprg kbprb
Version           : 4.0 5.0
Platform          : WINDOWS
Issue type        : kbprb

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Last reviewed: March 17, 1998
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