COM system requirements?

[paulashton1979]

I have developed a COM object and can use it happily on my machine and another developers machine, but when I try to use it on a laptop, I get the well documented 429 error. Why is this? I have tried all the suggestions on these forums but still no joy. Are there files that the laptop needs to create a COM object? Are there versions I need to be aware of? What are the minimum system requirements in order for this to work? It's not a registration problem, I can see it has registered the dll correctly.

I have also tried using the package and deployment wizard, but that didn't make any difference.

To try to narrow down the problem I have cut out all the code from the COM object. All it does now is have a method that returns a String. Are there any automation things I need to install? Any help would be greatly appreciated as I have tried everything suggested in every forum ever.
Cheers
Paul

 

[dilettante]

429 as in "can't create object?"

What OS is the laptop running?

 

[paulashton1979]

Windows NT. The problem turned out to be that I needed to update the Microsoft Virtual Machine (not sure if that made any difference) and install DCOM95. Anyone trying to get this to work - do the above, I tried every suggestion I could find. These two were installed for my as I put on Visual Studio 6.
Cheers
Paul