After you acquire an object, you must register it with Windows for ColdFusion (or any other program) to find it. Some objects have setup programs that register objects automatically, while others require manual registration.

You can register Inproc object servers (.dll or .ocx files) manually by running the regsvr32.exe utility using the following form:

regsvr32 c:\path\servername.dll

You typically register Local servers (.exe files) either by starting them or by specifying a command line parameters, such as the following:

C:\pathname\servername.exe -register