When you try to access any of the links from the ChemOffice.asp page, you receive the following error.Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a01a8'Object Required: 'Application(...)'/csdemo/global.asa, line 383

When you try to access any of the links from the ChemOffice.asp page, you receive the following error.

Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a01a8'
Object Required: 'Application(...)'
/csdemo/global.asa, line 383

This problem occurs when you have installed any Microsoft Visual Studio Version 6 product on the machine with IIS 4 and ChemOffice Webserver 98 installed. A registry setting required by the webserver is changed by the Microsoft installation.

Although, we do not recommend users editing the registry, in this situation it is the only way to get the ChemOffice Webserver to run. To correct this problem by changing the registry setting back to the value required by ChemOffice WebServer 98.

1. Choose Run From the Start Menu.
2. Type "RegEdit"
3. Click "OK"
4. Within RegEdit, click the My Computer icon and choose Find from the Edit menu.
5. Type "scripting.dictionary"
6. Click the Find button.
7. This search will find the CLSID for the scripting dictionary and select the appropriate directory.

If you look at the bottom of RegEdit you will see the path something like the following (Note that the actual CLSID value will be different for your computer):
"Computer\HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{EE0098103-97E0-11CF-978F-00A02463E06F"
The selected folder that you will open would be "{EE0098103-97E0-11CF-978F-00A02463E06F}"

8. Click the CLSID folder found in the search to expand its contents.
9. Click the InProcServer folder
10.Double-click of the ThreadingModel entry on the right-side of regedit.
12.Change the "Value data" value from "Apartment" to "Both"
13.Click OK
14.Close RegEdit
15. Reboot your Server