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Error Loading VB 6 Project In Windows 7 - MSComCtl2

I can't open my VB6 project on any Windows 7 machine. I did a clean OS install on a machine. The OS is Windows 7 Pro SP1 32 bit. All I have installed on this machine is VB6 Enterprise and Office 2007 Enterprise. When I try to open my VB6 project I…
nate
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Passing '&' as text in parameter in batch file

I am trying to pass an argument to a BAT file thru VB Shell function. argument text value looks like this say Hello&123 As you noticed there's an '&' as text in it. However & is reserved in BAT so I am trying to make it work but so far…
rajeev
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how to make a process unstoppable?

There are some process in the Windows-Task-Manager that you can't kill them in Non-Administrator users : And even in Administrator users, when you try to kill them, you receive this below warning : I want to know, is there any way to make another…
Ebrahim Ghasemi
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Why can some HKLM entries be read on 64-bit PCs but some cannot from VB6

So our software is used by one of our customers on legacy Windows versions because they're in an industrial,air-gaped setting and they have Windows XP and a bunch of old servers that are the only things that work for them. A few of of these are…
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Compatibility issues with a VB6 app on Windows 10

The big problem In the organization where I work, the management system (a modular application created by another company) was developed in the year 97/98 on VB, and has never migrated to another more evolved development platform, such as VB.NET.…
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Visual Basic 6 Cannot Find DAO350 DLL

I have a Visual Basic 6 .project file that is being built with MSBuild. MSBuild is using VB6.exe to do this, and finds the executable fine. However, the VB6 executable itself cannot find the DAO350.dll file. The dll is located in the usual…
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VB6 Add-Ins only show when Running as Administrator (Windows 11)

I recently installed a version of VB6 (Enterprise) on a Windows 11 machine. When I previously ran VB6 on Windows 10, I was able to utilize the popular mouse-wheel fix add-in by calling regsvr32 .dll (running as admin) and then VB6 would…
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While running VB6 I get no notifications/sounds from Outlook

I have some legacy code that I need to occasionally maintain in VB6. My issue is that when I run VB6 and run code at least once, Outlook will stop notifications and I won't know if an email comes in until I switch apps and see the unread email…
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vb6 client and server using playyit.gg multiplay lan host detect

i used this https://github.com/dechamps/WinIPBroadcast it is a .exe made by the author of this tool that WinIPBroadcast is a small program that allows Windows applications to send global IP broadcast packets (destination address 255.255.255.255) to…
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Visual Basic 6 on Windows 10 (Yes, Really)

Is there any way to install VB6 on a Windows 10 machine? I've been asked to revive and move an old company application from an XP machine to a new PC. The code is going to be rewritten in C#, but we want to be able to run it "as is" until that…
Special Kay
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How to execute 'make' and 'run' commands on vbg files in Administrator mode on Windows 10?

I have a VB6 project which has two components that I need to 'make' before I can 'run' the VB6 project. This involves me right clicking on each of the component (vgb file) and choosing the 'Make' option from the context menu. After that, I then…
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VB6 program stopped working on win7 after security update

I have a customized VB6 text editor that I developed myself in VB6 (using the richtext control), developed on windows XP, but has always worked fine on windows 7 until this week after some kind of security update on my win7 laptop pushed out by my…
Sarta
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Format an Excel cell from VB 6.0 with an amount to two decimal places

When using vb 6.0 to make a cell, we cannot force the amount to be shown with 2 places after the decimal if the number does not have end in 1-9. For example 59.12 shows up correctly but if we try 59.10 we get 59.1 in the cell. Have tried many…
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File timestamps inconsistently update on network drive in Windows 7

This problem has been bugging me for a couple years now, and I have not been able to find a good solution. I develop code in both C++ and VB6. When I compile my C++ code in Visual Studio 2005, the file timestamps of the compiled files (exes, dlls,…
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how to transfer file without replacing old files using pscp by vb6

I have an app. when on click it will transfer all text files to server but it replaces the old files. I want to transfer the new files without replacing the old files. here is my code that when you click the command key and will run the command…
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