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From: John Mott <johnmott@iinet.net.au>
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Subject: Re: Visual Basic 5
Date: Sun, 04 May 2014 15:48:01 +0800
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I tried this solution, but got an error message saying

"regtlib is not recognised as an internal or external command,
operation, program or batch file"

John

On Fri, 02 May 2014 15:27:36 -0400, RW <RonW@no_domain.invalid> wrote:

>On Fri, 02 May 2014 17:02:14 +0800, John Mott <johnmott@iinet.net.au>
>wrote:
>
>>I found that VB5 apparently installed on Win 7 successfully, but will
>>not run properly.
>>Any suggestions gratefully appreciated.
>>
>>John
>
>Is version 10 (or higher) of Internet Explorer installed? There were
>issues with IE10 "breaking" certain OCXs. You probably can find the
>details -- and fixes -- with a few quick web searches. When I got bit
>I just rolled back the Windows update that installed IE10 and then hid
>that update so as not to accidentally apply it again. Since I don't
>use IE anyway sticking on version 9 was no big deal for me.
>
>Also, there's this advice from microsoft.public.vb.general.discussion:
>
>"Open an elevated cmd prompt and change to the \Windows\System32
>folder (for 32-bit) or the \Windows\SysWOW64 folder (for 64-bit).
>
>Once in the correct folder, enter the following command:
>
>regtlib msdatsrc.tlb
>
>You should get a "Registration of msdatsrc.tlb successful." message.
>After that, MSCOMCTL.OCX and MSCOMCT2.OCX work normally."