VB Forum / General 2 / November 2003

Hi there. I need to be able to detect whether someone is running an
Administrator account - my installation program should only let Admins
install. I also need to give registry permissions to anyone without -
I want to store stuff like an MRU list and user settings in the

I want to be able to detect if an image has been right-clicked. I have 5
images in my program. If I Click the image it gets selected by my program.
But I want to be able to Right-Click one of the images which will mean all
other images will be selected.

I wish to enable more than one named user to access password protected
menu  ie: Tom,Dick and Harry  rather than JUST Tom.
Can I do this with Case Select...doesn't seem work for me.
Assistance much appreciated.

I have three forms, the first is a menu that has two command buttons and
when clicked opens the other forms.
I have put the form load code in the menu form under Form_Load for the two
other forms... should I now use the Form_unload staement in the menu form to

Being new to VB6, I was wondering how to remove the small default icon in
the top left of a form. I do not want any icon at all.
kind regards..
Rob

I am trying to use MAPI.
I have the following code..
Dim oSession as MAPI.Session        ' in variable declaration
Set oSession = CreateObject("MAPI.Session")  ' in procedure

Sorry,simple question...how do I show the current date/time in the
status bar?
Thanks

Can anyone suggest how I can speed up parsing some text files?
What I do is search a text files for a particular string. Once that has been
found I pull out some other information. The problem I have is that the file
can grow to a couple of hundred megabytes quite easily and my ...

Could you please help me with this.
Create an ActiveX control to act as a Seven Segment Display.
Display a running count from 0 to 999 to 0 to 999 etc. The count should be
automatically incremented every 1/2 a second. Note the timer will be in the

I set a program to automatically load values from a temporary file.
However, there is a chance that the specific temporary file "C:\Temp\TU.tmp"
may not exist at all.  In that case I want that specific routine to be
skipped.  I guess this is a simple

when starting VB 6.0, just after splash screen the
message "unexpected error; quitting" appears - cannot
start application.

I have a simple VB6 application that archives my Inbox. I recently
upgraded to a WIndows XP workstation from NT4/SP6. Now, my MAPI app
fails to login to my email. Any ideas what is needed or what is wrong?
Thanks in advance for any help.

Hello...looking for some examples of the DDB function to better
understand how it is used.Thanks

I am printing an unlimited amount of pages, average user prints at least 100
pages.
What I would like to do is:
1. Dump each page to a file

I have VB 6.0 code that compiles and runs fine on Win XP
but won't compile on anything else.  It errors on a Dim
Conn as ADODB.Connection that the library can't be
found.  I need it to compile on XP, 2000 and NT.  It