VB Forum / General / December 2006

Tried installing XP SP2.  It was unsuccessful and it uninstalled itself.  I
can no longer boot the machine.  Windows Logo appears then oges black and
starts the boot process again.  How can I get back to the last restore point
prior to the SP2 install?

First.
Happy New Years to all.
I am using VB6.0 SP5.
I need to print a rectangle on my print out.

hi to all,
i will be thankful to you if you provide me the best way to implement
the multi threading concept using VB6.0.
in present application i am using two Timers and this application is

          Sometimes computer has the clock set to the date, which is not a
real date.
What will be the best method to check that?
Is there maybe some entry in the registry keeping track of  the current

As I see, this is a function in dot.net to convert curent date in nanosecond
units and than to then string.
How can I do this in VB?
Thank you,

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vbasic/bb219077.aspx
Paul
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Microsoft MVP (Visual Basic)

How to get Folder Size in bytes?
I can use FileSystemObject (this is fast!), but do not want to - trying to
eliminate all FSO ops.
Can recurse using FindFirstFile, FindNextFile, and add file bytes but this

I need to programmatically find files on my hard drive and change certain
attributes of those files.  I don't remember the component(s) to reference
in the project.  Would someone tell me what component and files I need to
reference?

Good Morning All
Some of you will doubtless have been following my various fumblings as a
very raw beginner. I am making very good progress with the help of one kind
regular off group. But I am very interested in the various other threads

Under which circumstances the registry hive: <user name>ntuser.dat will not
be updated?
Jack

I'm attempting to load a VB3 project into VB6.  When i do, i get the
following error for most of the forms and modules.
"'LINKFORM.FRM' is in binary format and cannot be loaded into VB6.--Continue
Loading Project?"

I am having problems accessing properties of dynamically generated
objects. Can someone please help?
In a nutshell:
My app creates an equal number of checkboxes and labels that share the

How can a program know if it is running in the IDE?
Stan Hilliard

I'm throwing this out to see if it might ring
a bell for anyone. I'm not sure if I have a bug
in my software or something else. The symptoms are
very unique:

I have a 100 page word document that is a mail merge.  Each document we
will say is a new document and a SSN is located on each doc in the same
location.  Is there a way to split the documnet in to single pages and
create a comma delimented text file like this examle