Question : Received error "ActiveX component can't create object" while calling WinFax.SDKSend in VBA

I've just upgraded to WinXP o/s from WinNT. My Access database which calls the WinFax (WinFax Pro version 10) SDK failed with a run-time error "ActiveX component can't create object". Because of this error, I've taken the following steps of action, yet the error remains:
1. Upgraded the database to Access 2002 from Access 2000.
2. Compiled the modules successfully.
3. Checked the library references - all are linked (no MISSING).
4. External library dlls modules are correctly registered with regSvr32.
5. Steps in Microsoft Knowledge Base 319841 have been follow through.
6. Checked to use the latest service pack and versions (DAO 3.6, ActiveX data object 2.8, OLE Automation, Winfax Automation Server, Symantec Winfax Pro Control)

Please advice; what is the solution?
 
The VBA line of code that caused the error #429 - "ActiveX component can't create object" follows:

    Set objWFXSend = CreateObject("WinFax.SDKSend")     '<---  Late Binding

Thanks,
Alice

Answer : Received error "ActiveX component can't create object" while calling WinFax.SDKSend in VBA

Hi Alice
I don't know how much this will help, but its worth reading,
I was answering another question regarding dialog browser,
when I gave the asker the code and later I sent a working mdb,
s/he kept getting the same error as yours: error# 429 with the message “ActiveX component can’t create object”
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Databases/MS_Access/Q_21078927.html

So this makes me think:
There must be an ActiveX component that was installed on the WinNT pc which is not installed on the WinXp pc,
and it doesn't show in the Reference, but WinFax depends on.

Did you mean to say that users are still using WinFax but manually?
If you change the default printer to the Fax device and print, will that solve your problem?
check in www.lebans.com for a default printer code,
which will change the default printer in your mdb, then revert to the original when you quit.

jaffer
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