Min Keng,
I appologize for the previous message, I reread the webpage on editing the registry and went through it carefully and found my problem. I had a piece of borken code under my zones file. Where there should only have been 0 through 4 there was an extra "L" symbol as well. I deleted it and now active x works perfectly and I can activate my software.
Thank you so much for your help!
Best,
Zach
