VB Forum / General / March 2006

please help me,
I am looking for the api call code to get the hard disk serial number which
is not the phisical one. i am looking for the serial of the producer which
is unique and cannot be changed.

I am trying to run the regsvr32.exe to register a Home made dll.
Every time it throws the following error: The Specifed module cannot be
found.
I have set the PATH variable as  PATH=whatever;C:\C2p3\;.

sir i am karhik,
from madurai, india
i am not able to open the xcel file using vb coding in Open office,
how to open the xcel file using vb in OpenOffice

I have a Excel spreadsheet  where a cell is formatted as general. How do you change it to date or any other
format  for that matter
Thnaks in advance for the help

I have Front page 2000 and am having trouble sizeing pictures.  I have set
the width and height to 100 percent but when I view the page in Mozilla
Firefox, the image comes up smaller than the original.  When I tried to use a
picture as a background, it repeated the picture to the ...

I'm working in VB6 and would like to set the background of the VScrollbar
control to gray (it defaults to white).  There is backcolor property for this
control; is there any way to do what I want.
Thanks...

I have a VB6 project and I would like to enable use of the mouse scroll wheel
in my forms. It is an MDI application. The parent form contains the scroll
bar controls. When the child form is visible in the parent form but not
maximized, occasionally the scroll wheel is not being ...

Here is what I would like to do, I have a large textbox with a
horizontal scroll bar and lots of text. I would like to memorize the
value of the scroll bar so that I can go back to certain text.  I
tried .selstart which brings me back to the text but  the scroll bar

I am using VS basic.net  2005. I want to use hide,or close to change form
from form1 to form2. I use showdialog to open form. Actually, I have several
forms. I hope to use created method to check, it seems it doesn't work very
well. Actually, I am a little bit confused by form ...

I'm synchronising times amongst a number of clients via a TCP connection.
(I'm in the UK).  The correct time will be read from GetSystemTime or
GetLocalTime.  The structure is sent to the remote client via TCP and the
client uses SetSystemTime or SetLocalTime.

I have a VB6 application running on windows XP SP1 (CPU : 900Mhz, RAM : 500
Mo).
For one of the screens (let's call it "screen A"), when I click on a button
to have access to the following screen B, it sometimes stays on screen A but

I am using several DTpickers in an app that writes to a Jet DB. My problem
is that when I allow users the checkbox option in the DTPicker to write a
null value to the DB, how do I get the DTPicker to show something like "No
date selected" when the record is brought back up on the ...

I have a graphic that I want to center on a mdi form.  I want it to be
centered for every different resolution.  How can I do this?
Thanks

How can I get User list from Windows and what can they do? such as I login
win2000 pro with administrator, I can find all user by computer manager:
Administrator, all
user1, only read

I have an address that comes though which may be 69-79 RUBY STREET or
129-179 RUBY STREET etc.  I want to be able to do a sum on these addresses
i.e. 79-69 or 179-129 so I can tell how many houses are within that specific
block.  Is this possible?