Components are registered and unregistered by calling the procedures DllRegisterServer and DllUnregisterServer exported by the component. This is what regsvr32 does, and you can do the same. If you know the name of the DLL (or OCX) when the program is compiled you can do this with a Declare statement.
Private Declare Function DllRegisterServer Lib "MyControl.dll" () As Long
Result = DllRegisterServer
The return value is zero for success.

There is no easy way of specifying the name or path of the control at run time. To solve this problem you can download a DLL (not ActiveX) written in C which makes the call for you. The download contains a sample VB project, the DLL and the source code of the DLL. To get it visit the download area

How?can?I?run?a?VB?program?as?an?NT?service

如何在NT的service里运行VB的exe程序

This C++ sample for VC4 is available from the 附件(ntsvc.zip). The Microsoft MSDN web site had this sample until recently. It has been replaced by a VC5 version called ntrsvocx. The ZIP file available here contains all the original VC4 files unaltered plus the help and OCX files.