How to Remove an ActiveX Control in Windows 95

Last reviewed: September 29, 1997
Article ID: Q154850
3.00 3.01 3.02 WINDOWS kbhowto

The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Internet Explorer versions 3.0, 3.01, 3.02, 4.0 for Windows 95
  • Microsoft Internet Explorer version 4.0 for Windows NT 4.0

SUMMARY

This article describes how to remove an ActiveX control in Windows 95 or Windows NT 4.0.

MORE INFORMATION

To remove an ActiveX control, follow these steps:

Internet Explorer 4.0

  1. Click Start, point to Settings, click Control Panel, double-click Add/Remove Programs, and then click the Install/Uninstall tab.

  2. If the ActiveX control you want to remove appears in the list of installed programs, click the control, click Add/Remove, and then follow the instructions on the screen.

    If the ActiveX control does not appear in the list of installed programs, continue with the next step.

  3. In Windows Explorer, open the Windows\Downloaded Program Files folder or the Winnt\Downloaded Program Files folder, right-click the ActiveX control you want to remove, and then click Remove.

Internet Explorer 3.0, 3.01, 3.02

  1. Click Start, point to Settings, click Control Panel, double-click Add/Remove Programs, and then click the Install/Uninstall tab.

  2. If the ActiveX control you want to remove appears in the list of installed programs, click the control, click Add/Remove, and then follow the instructions on the screen.

    If the ActiveX control does not appear in the list of installed programs, continue with the next step.

  3. Click Start, click Run, type the following line in the Open box, and then click OK:

          regsvr32 c:\windows\occache\<filename>.ocx /u
    

    where <filename>.ocx is the ActiveX control you want to remove.

    NOTE: If you do not know the file name for the .ocx file (ActiveX control) you want to remove, you may be able to determine the file name by looking at the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) source of a Web page that installs or uses the ActiveX control. To view the HTML source of a Web page, right-click an empty area of the Web page, and then click View Source on the menu that appears.

  4. In Windows Explorer, click the .ocx file in the Windows\Occache folder, and then click Delete on the File menu.

Regsvr32.exe is installed by Microsoft Internet Explorer and can be used to register and remove registry entries for ActiveX controls.

For additional information about ActiveX, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

   ARTICLE-ID: Q154544
   TITLE     : Description of ActiveX Technologies


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Last reviewed: September 29, 1997
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