Registering DLLs

[Binarydrone]

Quick question, though I can get more specific if I need.

Is there some setting in Windows XP that disallows the registering of DLL files? If so, where do I find it and change it?

Thanks

[Daizy]

I'll take more specifics.
What dll file are you trying to register?
How are you doing it?
What's the error message you're getting?

[chrisk]

Do you want to disallow or reallow registering, or both??

I'm not aware of a single switch, but to complete a registration the current windows account needs to have Write permissions in the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT registry tree. By default, regular users do not have these permissions, admins do. (Not sure about power users etcetera.)

[Binarydrone]

I'll take more specifics.
What dll file are you trying to register?
How are you doing it?
What's the error message you're getting?
DLL is a proprietaty DLL, specific to a program. It has worked in many other environments and so evidence suggests that the problem is system specific and I suspect permissions relataed. The installer registers it in all other cases.

The specific error that comes up when trying to use regsvr32 to register it is "*.dll was not loaded, but the DllRegisterServer entry point was not found. The file can not be registered."

[ultrafilter]

What privileges does the current login have?

[Ponder Stibbons]

DLL is a proprietaty DLL, specific to a program. It has worked in many other environments and so evidence suggests that the problem is system specific and I suspect permissions relataed. The installer registers it in all other cases.

The specific error that comes up when trying to use regsvr32 to register it is "*.dll was not loaded, but the DllRegisterServer entry point was not found. The file can not be registered."
Only COM DLL's can be registered. All .ocx files are actually special-purpose COM DLL's. But not all (in fact only a minority) of .DLL's are COM DLL's.

Since the error message indicates that "the DllRegisterServer entry point was not found." this means that the DLL in question is almost certainly not a COM DLL and cannot (and does not need to be) registered.

[Binarydrone]

...Since the error message indicates that "the DllRegisterServer entry point was not found." this means that the DLL in question is almost certainly not a COM DLL and cannot (and does not need to be) registered.
I am pretty sure that the error message is a red herring of sorts. As you may or may not have surmised, I am asking this question in relation to my job (tech support) and so I factually know that this particular DLL requires registration (not that I wrote it, but the guy that did tells me tha this is so). In any event, I am looking into what group the user logging into is a part of and so forth.

Thanks for suggestions, folks.