G
gun
An older Win95 program I installed on XP is asking for the "vbrun300.dll"
file. Is it safe to copy it in the Win directory?
file. Is it safe to copy it in the Win directory?
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Guest
No, you can't. Try using the Compatibility tab on the Properties of the
program. Right click on the program, go to Properties & set it to Run as Win
95. Some old Win 95 programs cannot run on Win XP.
program. Right click on the program, go to Properties & set it to Run as Win
95. Some old Win 95 programs cannot run on Win XP.
M
Menno Hershberger
An older Win95 program I installed on XP is asking for the
"vbrun300.dll" file. Is it safe to copy it in the Win directory?
Yep. It may have to go in the windows\system32 directory. That's where
mine is anyway.
K
Ken Blake
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Sure you can, although it's more typically put into
\windows\system32.
Whether the Visual Basic program that needs the program will run
or not under Windows XP is a different question from whether you
can, or whether it's safe to, install vbrun300.dll. Some will run
and some won't. And some may require compatibilty mode to run.
Mary said:No, you can't.
Sure you can, although it's more typically put into
\windows\system32.
Try using the Compatibility tab on the Properties of
the program. Right click on the program, go to Properties & set
it to
Run as Win
95. Some old Win 95 programs cannot run on Win XP.
Whether the Visual Basic program that needs the program will run
or not under Windows XP is a different question from whether you
can, or whether it's safe to, install vbrun300.dll. Some will run
and some won't. And some may require compatibilty mode to run.
V
V Green
Menno Hershberger said:Yep. It may have to go in the windows\system32 directory. That's where
mine is anyway.
Actually, the VB3 runtimes (of which this is a part), seem happier
in the \SYSTEM directory, as when they were written, the Windows
directory structure (3.1) didn't even include a \SYSTEM32 directory.
I have a couple highly complex VB3 apps that I wrote many years ago
(that I'm too lazy to port over to anything newer) that run just fine
under all 32 bit verisions of Windows. Even the VB3 development
editor runs just fine.
A
Alex Nichol
gun said:An older Win95 program I installed on XP is asking for the "vbrun300.dll"
file. Is it safe to copy it in the Win directory?
I would try it in the same folder as the program, and have the
Properties of the shortcut that runs the program set to 'Starts in' that
folder. Then when you run, it should get picked up from there