Registering a .dll File

There are two different ways on how to register the file on the operating system of your windows: The Manual Register and the simpler way is the self register.

You can easily and manually register a dll. It is simple and can be done for only few steps. Here are the following steps:

1. Look for an exact location of the file .dll.

2. Simply click on the Start Menu located on the lower left part of your desktop.

3. Select the windows button together with the letter R or just look for the Run option.

4. There is field where you can edit on the Run dialog box, just key in the 'regsvr32' with a follow up of the file name and the complete path of the file .dll. The file and path name must be in a quotation mark. i.e. regsvr32 "C:\Windows\System32\abd.dll"

5. Double check the information that you typed before you type the Enter key. Automatically, the file will be included by the system directly in the registry.

6. There will be a message box that will pop up and indicating that the file has successfully been registered.

Self registering the dll file

There are also such files that have the capability of registering their own on the registry of the system. It will work on the procedure of self registering while the software installation is housing them. No need to make any moves in this kind of process. Once it was already registered, application that is requiring them will responsively go in to their libraries. The files self registering are typically used from the one that requires you to register manually.

How you can register a dll file?

On the operating system of the Microsoft Windows, (dll) defines as a Dynamic Link Library. They are files that are small that avts as library of usage. It is typically data where it is being shared on some application that has multiple characters. The dll can be utilized and loaded by these types of application.

Replacing your previous one with a new file

There are two options in case you want to replace the existing file in your operating system.

Break the compatibility of your new one from the old one.

1. You must set Project Component into No compatibility.

2. Also change the project name in the VB IDE and just save it as a new name of the project.

3. Place it in same folder in the website replacing it

4. To register it just make it register.asp

5. Make change of the project name

6. Use unregister.asp to unregister the old one

Continue the compatibility of your new one.