VB Forum / General 2 / July 2005

Have do I get my program to open when I turn on my computer?

Thanks a lot for your repy.
I guess I have to live with it :-(
However, I'm still wondering that a network drive which points to a local
drive is about 10 times slower than the local drive itself. Is this really

I mean this is simple:
Inet1.OpenURL(URLName, DataType)
But it only works on webpages that do not require authentication?

Have a nice summer, folks!

I'm working on a VB6 COM addin. After some modifications and a few
weeks time, I tried to remake the DLL using VS. This resulted in a
"Error in loading dll" dialog box.
I was doing this to package it into an msi using Visual Studio

I'd really appreciate if you would help me out with a little problem. I've
just been doing some work on my Win98 machine and I noticed that the
StretchBlt API is not working as expected (although it works fine on my Win
XP machine). The funny thing is that I'm pretty sure I remember ...

Can someone please explain the reason for the following
error message....
Compile Error:
"Only comments may appear after End Sub, End Function, or End Property"

I'm experimenting with using the
GetPrivateProfileString and WritePrivateProfileString APIs
as a way of creating and manipulating a database file.
One of the first things I need to be able to do at program startup is get a

   I am designing a program which uses a rich textbox control. THe
print menu command i am using is
RichTextBox1.SelPrint(Printer.hDC)
and i have found that in printing documents more than a line long, the

Hi fellas,
I've just convert a DB with Access 2002 to 2003 and the first thing
happend was that VBA didn't let me have access to my DB because a file
DAO 2535 missing, what I did was I unclick the missing files and just

Can I make my program send an e-mail and/or recieve e-mails that tell it
what to do?

I am using the data report designer in vb6(sp6) to print some reports
from my App. The app works fine on all win 98/2k and most xp machines.
But on some of the xp machines, they even have sp2 installed, the
report will print but the xp error reporting dialog appears and closes

I've been programming visual basic for years now but recently I've been
working on some code and came across the colon, which I don't believe I've
ever seen in visual basic.
Its used in the definitions section and as far as I can tell, its used much

Like the subj says, anyone know a fast & reliable way fo fetching my
outside IP without connecting to some website that reports the IP,
like an ipchicken.com or something? I already know how to fetch from a
website, but it's not very applicable for what I want to do.

I have been trying to code a Text Box so it capitalizes the first letter of each word as it is typed
without success.  Below is code for capitalizing the very first letter.  I finally gave up and
deleted all of my attempts.  This code is for adding up to 3 additional comments to ...