Norton Utilities' WinDoctor: Invalid ActiveX/Com Entries

[Dan]

Why are there always so many "Invalid ActiveX/Com" entries everytime I run Norton Utilities' WinDoctor? What's the deal with ActiveX and why does it get screwed up so often?

 

[corkyg]

Every time new software or updates, especially from Microsoft, that occurs, and they are mainly registry entries that need changing that Microsoft's setup program simply does not handle very well.

Bottom line . . . believe it and let WinDoctor fix it. (It normally deletes those entries which refer to removed or changed file names.)

This is one of the reasons for Windows' chronic instability.

As an example . . . a reinstall of Windows over itself can produce as many as 60 or 70 of these erroneous Active X entries. Windows is very slip shod when it comes to cleaning up its own registry.

 

[Dan]

corky-g: Thanks for the response. I've used Norton's Utilities for years and I always let it correct the errors it detects. I just never understood why there are always so many ActiveX errors relative to everything else it finds.