Registering DLL's - Please read

A while ago someone came up with the following helpful tip :

When you do a lot of registering of DLL's, you can put regsvr32.exe in your Send to folder. That way you can just right click a dll and then send it to regsvr32 to register it

I thought this was a very valuable trick, and started using it right away. Until I noticed something yesterday :

I had a DLL called UniversalInterface.dll which I had to register, so I right clicked it, and sent it to regsvr32. Done. The programs referencing the dll however would not run. Not knowing what was the matter, I decided to unregister and reregister the dll, this time using the command prompt. Now everything worked.

I decided to find out why the error had occured, and found the following : in my registry my UniversalInterface.dll was registered allright, but it was stored as Univer~3.dll - The send to didn't take the full (length > 8 chars) name !!

Now I don't know if it was my Windows NT conflicting or if the send to does this on every windows system, but nevertheless you have been warned. I spent about a whole day looking for the error, and ended my day with a major headache ...

Greetz all,

I use this modification that adds the commands to the registry. See the attached file.

I use a similar file to Mill's, however in mine, I explicitly provide the path
to regsvr32.exe because in many PCs (like NT4,) the folder isn't
automatically part of the search path.

That is much better indeed !

Thank you very much !