http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vbhelp/ Visual Basic Help Center Forum Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:17:47 GMT Michael Hodge http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vbhelp/message/15848 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vbhelp/message/15848 A week or so ago, I asked about how to get VB6 to add a desktop icon automatically. My attention has been drawn to the following article. I tried it - and it Wed, 10 Jun 2009 08:57:41 GMT Iqbal hossain http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vbhelp/message/15847 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vbhelp/message/15847 cn.Open "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0; Jet OLEDB:Database Password=123;Data Source=C:\spt.mdb;" where 123 is password   for more informaiton Sat, 06 Jun 2009 04:48:27 GMT saqib rizvi http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vbhelp/message/15846 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vbhelp/message/15846 Dear all   I am using VB 6 as front end and access as back end for the database. i have fol questions   1. i have password my access db file and  i want to Mon, 18 May 2009 20:50:46 GMT burkleyd http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vbhelp/message/15845 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vbhelp/message/15845 ... I don't know if this will work or not but... it supposedly can be done using a script. Mon, 18 May 2009 17:14:51 GMT Michael Hodge http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vbhelp/message/15844 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vbhelp/message/15844 By including Autorun.inf on the CD, I have eased the process of the few friends who are installing my VB6 program. While written using XP, it seems to be Sat, 11 Apr 2009 16:11:17 GMT Shawn K. Hall http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vbhelp/message/15842 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vbhelp/message/15842 ... You're welcome, of course. It occurs to me, too, that you should check out the prebuilt "tester" VHD's (virtual hard drives) for various flavors of XP and Fri, 10 Apr 2009 10:18:19 GMT Rob http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vbhelp/message/15841 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vbhelp/message/15841 Hi Shawn, Thanks for taking the time to respond. My PC's are old (2002 2004), and not overflowing with memory. Thus I will check out Virtual PC: Thanks again, Fri, 10 Apr 2009 00:08:37 GMT Shawn K. Hall http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vbhelp/message/15840 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vbhelp/message/15840 Hi Rob, ... While I've used a number of different engines, VMware tends to be the most powerful: http://www.vmware.com/download/desktop_virtualization.html Wed, 08 Apr 2009 07:30:05 GMT Rob http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vbhelp/message/15839 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vbhelp/message/15839 Hi Shawn, Is there a free one that you recommend ? Regards, Rob ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Wed, 08 Apr 2009 07:08:25 GMT Shawn K. Hall http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vbhelp/message/15838 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vbhelp/message/15838 ... Yes, you will. :( I've had luck by running the installer in XP compatibility (copy the entire disk to a drive and right click, changing compatibility Tue, 07 Apr 2009 15:30:45 GMT Michael Hodge http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vbhelp/message/15837 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vbhelp/message/15837 Many thanks, Tim and David. Before receiving your kind replies, I tried yet again. This time I ignored every warning saying "This program has known Mon, 06 Apr 2009 19:56:31 GMT burkleyd http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vbhelp/message/15836 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vbhelp/message/15836 ... I don't know how true it is but I've heard tell... starting with Vista (and beyond) software development tools such as VB will need to be installed on a Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:32:33 GMT Tim Rupp http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vbhelp/message/15835 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vbhelp/message/15835 You did install VB6 on your Vista machine under an Administrator account, correct? A few things that may help for the installation: * Cancel any Visual Studio Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:13:10 GMT Michael Hodge http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vbhelp/message/15834 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vbhelp/message/15834 For better or for worse, I have Vista on a Laptop and XP on a Desktop. Hitherto, I have programmed on the XP Desktop. However, I should like to use my VB6, Sun, 05 Apr 2009 22:48:21 GMT stv_gch http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vbhelp/message/15833 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vbhelp/message/15833 It is hard to explain what Lotus fits into, it is compliant with all OOPS standards for BASIC, XML, JAVA, JAVASCRIPT etc and on top of that has it's own