Reply To: State 5 is out of bounds (but not states 6 and 7)!?

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All sorted now 😀 The ActiveX thing was a red herring (might well have been a symptom, but certainly was not a cause). The dll in question was up-to-date, and the components in question just needed to be re-registered, but that made no difference.

What did make the difference in the end, was open registry surgery, to remove all the Epson scanner-related stuff that didn’t get removed by the uninstallation, and on this occasion was obviously the cause of the problem.

Thanks for the suggestions, everyone; I’m sure the ActiveX/GUI-related learning will come in useful in due course.

Andy