{"id":2990,"date":"2024-10-09T08:59:11","date_gmt":"2024-10-09T15:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cknotes.com\/?p=2990"},"modified":"2024-10-09T08:59:11","modified_gmt":"2024-10-09T15:59:11","slug":"error-code-800a01ad-trying-to-createobject-in-vbscript","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cknotes.com\/error-code-800a01ad-trying-to-createobject-in-vbscript\/","title":{"rendered":"Error Code 800A01AD trying to CreateObject in VBScript"},"content":{"rendered":"

Question:<\/h3>\n

I got the following error when trying to instantiate an ActiveX object in my VBScript (.vbs)<\/p>\n

Code “800A01AD”<\/span>
Message “ActiveX component can’t create object: ‘Chilkat.Cert'”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Answer:<\/h3>\n

It means the ActiveX is not registered.\u00a0 Yes, you probably registered the ActiveX, but you need to understand if your VBScript is running as a 32-bit process, or a 64-bit process.\u00a0 You then need to register the matching ActiveX (32-bit or 64-bit) to the correct registry (32-bit or 64-bit).<\/p>\n

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  1. You need to understand about 32-bit vs 64-bit VBScript<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  2. You need to understand about the Windows 32-bit vs 64-bit Registries<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Download the 32-bit or 64-bit Chilkat ActiveX<\/a> and register to the correct registry.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    If you want to cover all your bases, simply download both 32-bit and 64-bit ActiveX’s and register each to its correct registry.\u00a0 Then your CreateObject statement will work regardless of whether it’s 32-bit or 64-bit.<\/p>\n

    Also, you should realize there are both Current User and Local Machine registries (IIS would use Local Machine).\u00a0 When you register as administrator, your registering to the local machine registry.<\/p>\n

    Thus, there are a total of 4 Windows Registries for ActiveX Registration<\/a>.<\/p>\n

    It might be a good idea to just take 10 minutes to read the ActiveX Registration Tutorial<\/a><\/p>\n

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    Question: I got the following error when trying to instantiate an ActiveX object in my VBScript (.vbs) Code “800A01AD”Message “ActiveX component can’t create object: ‘Chilkat.Cert’” Answer: It means the ActiveX is not registered.\u00a0 Yes, you probably registered the ActiveX, but you need to understand if your VBScript is running as a 32-bit process, or a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[797,755],"tags":[1054,433,233],"class_list":["post-2990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activex-errors","category-activex-registration","tag-800a01ad","tag-activex","tag-register"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cknotes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cknotes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cknotes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cknotes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cknotes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cknotes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2991,"href":"https:\/\/cknotes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2990\/revisions\/2991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cknotes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cknotes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cknotes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}