Externals and COM objects

[Mike Bonner]

 Don't know much about this stuff but found some things that might apply.


http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2979113/qcroreapplication-qapplication-with-wmi--
 says that the error is due to the com already being initialized and
 provides more info.


http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vclanguage/thread/e1bc9fe4-d985-473a-88f7-ef2ed47f77b3/Says
 the same basic thing but has some code to "safely ignore the error"

 The documents also say it refers to the fact that a thread mode can't be
 changed after its set.