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Re: VB 6/Windows 7 addins

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Subject	Re: VB 6/Windows 7 addins
From	Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com>
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Date	2011-12-09 07:56 -0700

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Deanna Earley <dee.earley@icode.co.uk> wrote in
news:jbt2uu$7jm$1@speranza.aioe.org: 

> On 08/12/2011 17:35, Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy wrote:
>> Deanna Earley<dee.earley@icode.co.uk>  wrote in
>>> Your original problem is most likely because there is a copy
>>> of the addins ini file in the Windows "Compatability files"
>>> folder (there is a button on the Explorer toolbar).
>>
>> I checked it. Start in admin mode, the custom addin shows up.
>> Start without it, custom addin isn't there. I hate Win7. Nearly
>> as much as every other version of Windows.
> 
> I know, the non elevated version is reading the copy in the 
> compatibility files folder instead of the one in the Windows
> folder itself (because VB6 was not written using MS's own
> guidelines and is not fully Windows Vista/7 compatible).
> 
> Have you tried editing that or are you ignoring it out of
> stubbornness? 
> 
Now that I've managed to figure out precisely what you're talking 
about, yes, that seems to resolve the issue.

-- 
Terry Austin

"Terry Austin: like the polio vaccine, only with more asshole."
    -- David Bilek

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VB 6/Windows 7 addins Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2011-12-07 16:59 -0700
  Re: VB 6/Windows 7 addins Deanna Earley <dee.earley@icode.co.uk> - 2011-12-08 11:00 +0000
    Re: VB 6/Windows 7 addins Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2011-12-08 08:05 -0700
      Re: VB 6/Windows 7 addins Deanna Earley <dee.earley@icode.co.uk> - 2011-12-08 16:32 +0000
        Re: VB 6/Windows 7 addins Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2011-12-08 10:35 -0700
          Re: VB 6/Windows 7 addins Deanna Earley <dee.earley@icode.co.uk> - 2011-12-09 13:37 +0000
            Re: VB 6/Windows 7 addins "Mike Williams" <Mike@WhiskyAndCoke.com> - 2011-12-09 15:00 +0000
              Re: VB 6/Windows 7 addins Deanna Earley <dee.earley@icode.co.uk> - 2011-12-09 15:16 +0000
                Re: VB 6/Windows 7 addins Mike Williams <robinloxley22@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-12-10 00:47 -0800
                Re: VB 6/Windows 7 addins Deanna Earley <dee.earley@icode.co.uk> - 2011-12-12 09:47 +0000
                Re: VB 6/Windows 7 addins "Mike Williams" <Mike@WhiskyAndCoke.com> - 2011-12-12 13:37 +0000
                Re: VB 6/Windows 7 addins "Mike Williams" <Mike@WhiskyAndCoke.com> - 2011-12-13 21:59 +0000
                Re: VB 6/Windows 7 addins "Mike Williams" <Mike@WhiskyAndCoke.com> - 2011-12-09 16:53 +0000
                Re: VB 6/Windows 7 addins "Mike Williams" <Mike@WhiskyAndCoke.com> - 2011-12-09 23:27 +0000
                Re: VB 6/Windows 7 addins "Mike Williams" <Mike@WhiskyAndCoke.com> - 2011-12-09 23:44 +0000
            Re: VB 6/Windows 7 addins Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2011-12-09 07:56 -0700

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