VB6 on XP - won't initiate

[Guest]

I recently tried to initiate VisualBasic 6.0 but received a message
indicating "DAO350.dll" was not found. I downloaded this file and saved to
the System32 directory, rebooted and tried to initiate VB6 again. I even
downloaded service pack 6, rebooted and retried.

This time I get an "Unexpected error; quitting" message immediately after
the VB6 splash screen appears.

I purchased VB6 from University of Cincinnati as a student and loaded it a
few years back on my Windows98 system. In the past year and a half I've
migrated to XP and moved all the files as well.

Am I missing something basic?

 

[S.Sengupta]

See if it helps:-
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;189472&Product=vbb

regards,
S.Sengupta[MS-MVP]

 

[Guest]

I followed the fix listed in
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;189472&Product=vbb
and rebooted. However, this did not help. There is a VBA6 directory within
the VBA directory on my XP, so I copied the DLL files there as well, but that
did not help either.
--
O''''Cathain

See if it helps:-
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;189472&Product=vbb

regards,
S.Sengupta[MS-MVP]

I recently tried to initiate VisualBasic 6.0 but received a message
indicating "DAO350.dll" was not found. I downloaded this file and saved to
the System32 directory, rebooted and tried to initiate VB6 again. I even
downloaded service pack 6, rebooted and retried.

This time I get an "Unexpected error; quitting" message immediately after
the VB6 splash screen appears.

I purchased VB6 from University of Cincinnati as a student and loaded it a
few years back on my Windows98 system. In the past year and a half I've
migrated to XP and moved all the files as well.

Am I missing something basic?

 

[Guillaume Hanique]

Do you have MS Office installed, but not yet activated?

I had this problem at my company, when I installed MS Office as an
Administrator and then using Windows (and Office) as a normal user (i.e.
limited rights). Every time it would ask the user to accept the EULA.
Visual Basic would not work in any application (neither Office nor AutoCAD).

I solved it logging in as an Administrator, starting office, activating
it, accepting the EULA, then logging back in as the normal user.
Everything worked fine.

Hope this helps...

 

[Guest]

Thanks, but at home I am only using one account, which is the Administrator.
Also, MS Office is installed and initiated.