SOLVED: MSCOMCTL.OCX Download & Register on 64 Bit Windows

If you are working for an old application you may be presented with the error:

Component ‘MSCOMCTL.OCX’ or one if its dependencies not correctly registered: a file is missing or invalid:

In this case you have two tasks to complete and neither of them are obvious:

DOWNLOAD MSCOMCTL.OCX

MSCOMCTL.OCX is part of Visual Basic 6 Package and you can download directly from Microsoft HERE then extract it using a tool like 7 Zip.  Alternately you can just download the MSCOMCTL.OCX directly from us HERE.

INSTALL MSCOMCTL.OCX

You need to know if you are using a 32bit or 64bit version of Windows and because this is not 2002, we are assuming you want to install it on a 64bit PC.  If you try to register MSCOMCTL.OCX (which is 32 bit) on a 64 bit system and you put it in the typical C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32 folder you will get:

THE MODULE ‘MSCOMTRL.OCX’ WAS LOADED BUT THE CALL TO DLLREGISTERSERVER FAILED WITH ERROR CODE 0X8002801C

1. If you are using 64 bit Windows copy the MSCOMCTL.OCX to C:\WINDOWS\SYSWOW64
   (If you are using 32 bit Windows copy MSCOMCTL.OCX to C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32)
   .
2. Open a CMD or PowerShell prompt (as an administrator) and change into C:\WINDOWS\SYSWOW64
   .
3. Type
   

   regsvr32 mscomctl.ocx

4. Press ENTER
5. Enjoy