Win7: Will doing "Run as administrator" on a .BAT file allow regsvr32 enough privlieges to register

Posted by Craig Johnston on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by Craig Johnston
Published on 2010-06-04T08:07:28Z Indexed on 2010/06/09 7:32 UTC
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Will doing "Run as administrator" on a .BAT file allow regsvr32 enough privlieges to register a DLL or OCX?

The .bat file contains:

regsvr32 -u SomeOCX.ocx
regsvr32 SomeOCX.ocx

Or, does the logged in user need to be an administrator?

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