It is totally unclear whether or not MS really wants (wanted?) to protect the MSComm itself. I would suppose they included the right to distribute the apps you create with a licensed VB6. Updating the registry just avoids having to install and uninstall the whole package on every pc you want to...
there seem to be a lot of people out there struggling with licensing errors for the MSComm on machines that do not have VB6 installed.
this worked for me : (for end-users under Windows NT 4.0)
- copy the mscomm32.ocx to the location
d:\winnt\system32\
- run from the dosprompt :
regsvr32...
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