How can I enumerate and remove installed ActiveX controls?

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I'm making a program to remove ActiveX controls. But..

I don't know how to get a list of installed controls...

...and I don't know how to remove them once found!

I searched the 'Net in vain, but could not find an answer.

Posted 21-Apr-10 3:32am

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The registry records are your friend here.

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Rama Krishna Vavilala · Accepted Answer · 2010-04-21T04:31:00

A Microsoft tool named RegMaid does the same thing as what you want to do. The nice thing is that it comes with the full C++ source code. As you can see there is lot involved in removing ActiveX controls (CLSID, AppID, Interfaces, Typelibs etc). Download the tool and the source code here:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/156078[^]

The code may require some tweaking to be build in latest versions of Visual Studio, and of course if you're trying to use VB.NET you'll want to keep in mind that .NET provides some additional libraries for manipulating the registry. But still, you can get a clean idea on how to write your own tool by looking at the source.