I have a series of ActiveX controls that must be installed to view cameras over the internet. From a support perspective I spend a significant amount of time just trying to get customers to find the tiny Install ActiveX bar at the top of the screen (I go through this about 10 times a day). What I'm trying to do is package the ActiveX controls and a bat file to install or copy them to the right place, that way they simply click the familiar Run or Save button.

I'm currently creating a self-extracting exe (SFX) with WinRAR and having it execute a bat file after unpacking, which copies the ActiveX controls to the "c:\windows\downloaded program files" folder where they would be placed if they were installed through IE. When I do this however they don't show up in that folder, but if I run a dir in that folder from the command prompt, only those ocx files I copied show up and none of the other files there do.

I've also tried running regsvr32 automatically after unpacking to get them installed and it says successful but they still don't show up and when I try to uninstall them with regsvr32 it says it can't find them.

Can someone please point out what I'm doing wrong or suggest a way I can package ActiveX controls to be installed with an installer.

Thanks in advance!