Re: Non-programmer - trying to get VB 6.0 installed on a Vista machine
- From: Janithor <Janithor@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 23:58:24 -0700
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Ralph wrote:
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Last year, someone sent me a working copy of VB 6.0 from the Sams book
"Teach Yourself VB in 21 Days". This was enough to get a program that
my wife wrote in VB 6.0 to run on my XP machine. I bought a laptop with
Vista Basic last August, and I can't get my wife's program to run.
When I installed VB onto the laptop, it said there are known
compatibility issues but didn't offer any solutions when I clicked
"search for solutions". I'm wondering if the problem is that this is a
light version of VB from a self-help book and not a full copy. VB still
installs, but when I try to run her program (project?), I get one of 3
errors:
* error accessing system registry
* msmask32.ocx couldn't be loaded
* mswinsck.ocx couldn't be loaded
Any ideas to get this thing running would be most appreciated. I've got
the program running on my other computer, so it's not super critical,
but I'm trying to move all my work stuff to the laptop and use the
desktop for personal stuff.
What you have is the Learning Edition. (I didn't know it would compile
programs?)
Anyway, the first error: "error accessing system registry"
Is because you are running in a least prividedged environment on Vista.
(UAC)
Right-click and select run as admin. (Even if logged in as Admin)
The other errors comes from the fact that those components are not included
with Vista and you need to install them. Copying on to machine and register
them. Are you familar with RegSvr32? Registering OCXs?
This may help
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vbrun/ms788708.aspx
-ralph
Wow, yes, thank you, this got me closer...I think! It feels like I'm a few clicks away from a solution, but then again maybe it'll take another weekend of web searches. I don't know how you folks do this for a living, it can be so frustrating. Then you discover those 2 little clicks and boom, problem solved. Except it takes all day to figure out what those 2 little clicks are, it's like you have to find the right incantation and the right computer gods to appease before you can move forward.
I copied these files from my XP machine to the laptop, and I figured out how to register the files on the Vista laptop using regsvr32. Vista said the files were successfully registered. I then ran VB 6.0 (the learning edition) as an administrator, and VB loads fine. When I tried to open the project, it said it can't find msmask32.ocx - the thing is, it gave a file path that goes into the folder where I keep the VB project. It appears that it's not looking for msmask32.ocx in Windows\System32, where I pasted it and then registered it (running cmd.exe as an admin.)
It feels like there is something in my wife's code that's making VB look for this file in the wrong place. That doesn't make a lot of sense, I would think this .ocx file would always be in the Windows\System32 folder? Or would she move it into the folder containing her project? I tried moving that file into the folder containing the VB project, but that didn't work. My wife can't help, she had a pretty bad stroke 2 years ago, so her memory on this is really spotty. If I could probe her brain, I think I could get the fix. The knowledge is in there, she just can't get it out very easily.
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