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Friday, November 2, 2007

Registering and UnRegistering a DLL - Two ways

There are 2 ways to register a DLL.
Any DLL registration happens through the windows tool Regsvr32.exe present in C:\Windows\System32\
  • The HARD-way: Using the above tool directly from command line. This is the obvious geekish way. This actually turns out to be simple after some practice. The command would be as per the following specification:
Regsvr32 [/u] [/s] [/n] [/i[:cmdline]] dllname
/s - Silent; display no message boxes
/u - Unregister server
/i - Call DllInstall passing it an optional [cmdline];
when used with /u calls dll uninstall
/n - do not call DllRegisterServer; this option must
be used with /i

  • The EASY-way: Right-click on the DLL you want to register and open it with the above tool. Again the tool resides in C:\Windows\System32\. Thats it. The DLL if proper would be registered and error messages if any would be shown in an alert box.
I do not yet know of a easy way for unregistering a DLL. So for that command line is the way.



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