I gather this is a bit of an old chestnut, but I would appreciate some help.

I have inherited some code which needs development and I haven't used VB for donkey's years so more than a bit rusty (I am a C++ programmer normally).

There is a program which fires off an ActiveX '.EXE component. This works fine. However when I make mods to the ActiveX bit, recompile and try to rerun it I get the error:

Run-time error '429':
ActveX component can't create object

This happens even if I make no actual coding changes.

What I have tried:

I have unregistered and registered the component by running the item with
/unregister and /register (I don't know if it works though because I get no response or errorlevel)

I have tried modifying the version number from within VisualStudio6 to what I think the version number should be.

I have tried compiling it and shutting down VS (someone told me this makes a difference).

... thats about it. I have been messing about with it for the best part of a day now and it's getting pretty frustrating. Google comes up with the same stuff all the time and I have tried most of it.

The last thing is that if I restore the original ActiveX component, it works just fine again.

This is running on an old PC with Windows 2000 as well, which probably doesn't help.

Any help gratefully received.

Cheers

Roj