Load IE Toolbar

[Ghirai]

A client of mine wants to load an IE toolbar WITHOUT registering the dll in the registry.

Any idea on how to do that?

I figure i can hook registry reads in IE and let it think it's registered, but that seems like an overkill...
Anyone know a simpler way?

The dll an ActiveX dll written in VB6.


Thanks.

[sluggy]

There is no good reason for not registering the toolbar dll in the registry, and AFAIK it is the only way to get your toolbar loaded.

[Ghirai]

He wants to load it from a limited account, and you can't write any reg keys.

Anyway, there are ways to get reg-write privileges on a limited account, but i don't want to provide him that kind of source.
I was thinking there's another way...

[Ghirai]

Nobody?  :(

[arafel]

Ghirai, afaik the is no simpler way. The only thing IE does to determine which bho's to load is by checking CLSIDs in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Browser Helper Objects\, so there is probably no other way other than hooking the registry access function.