VB6 and WindowsXP

[rockinron]

Has anyone had a chance to see if VB6 & it's programs will work the same with Windows XP???

XP looks like an updated win98 with bug fixes.

[WizBang]

Hi, xp ain't no update. It's a whole different animal altogether, and it sucks. If you want control. You'll hate it. The more you know about computers, the more you'll find bad about it. It's really ie and mediaplayer with a gui. xp crosses every line ever drawn. If you want m$ to tell you what to do, and boss you around, take away your power, force you to use only m$ apps, and watch what you do by sending info to m$ while you use your computer, then hop on the bandwagon and let them take away your freedom. Read the nitty gritty details and you'll see. I have heard from user after user about the crap m$ is pulling with this. They went right ahead and did all the things they went to court about. That and much more. Now mediaplayer is integrated as well, which is already crippling other CD player apps, according to users. Just wait 'til the first few updates occur and they REALLY get in your face! NOT ME!!

[Manish Malik]

LOL! :-D

I'm using WinXP on another machine, and it is not "updated win98 with bug fixes"! Instead, it is "updated win2000 with more bugs" !! ;-)


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[deghost]

To understand what WinXP is you should imagine your grandmother with makeup and think of her in a sexual way! they only upgraded 3 things: the interface (stuff like round windows, 16Mln colors icons etc.), media player and stuff AND THE WHOLE NEW FAMOUS M$ BLUE SCREEN!!! (now with many lines of text instead of the "Warning!"). Oh, and ofcourse the home-bugs edition and the office-bugs edition! This is what I think of WinXP and programming: XP (read as "smily")

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[roykennedy]

I have been using VB6 on Windows xp for about three weeks and I have not run into any problems yet.

[DeafBug]

No I haven't tried VB in XP but I do have XP Pro installed on one of my partitions as I use BootMagic.

I think it is alright. But I hate the new UI look. However I did control just about everything. Turned off all the animations and fading/shadowing effects. Switched everything to classic setup. Now it looks more like Windows 2000. Of course there are something things that are annoying that you have to hack the registry.

[ahir_bhavIK]

also avialable windows 98 so Why You using Xp



ahir bhavik i

[Andyb]

What a load of cods. Why don't you offer something of more constructive use. At least XP is of some use whereas your childish proferings are just that.

[DSJ]

I guess what's a turd to one is fertilizer to antoher...

[Cimperiali]

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[deghost]

I found some really annoying bugs on winxp that just makes it use a nightmare. i wanted to scan some pages with a scanner, after EACH page is halted (blue screen)! the TV card also halts the system form time to time (ofcourse i have the newest "XP" drivers for all of my hardware). one of the most annoying bugs is in media player, when the visualizations are shown on full screen, it goes way too slowly (frame by frame) but when i enter some menu it shows fine. the same problem i've seen in other programs too. my hardware is fine and i have no hardware compatibility problems.
Does anyone know what should i do in order to fix at least some of these bugs? I've already insatlled the windows updates).

Thanx.

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[WillemM]

Windows XP is very different from what we had. Some programs don't work anymore, but instead we do have bugfixes.... Because they remove standard support for old software. VB6 and windows xp runs smooth on my pc
The only thing you don't have to do is running some kinda pc emulator on windows XP... This makes windows 90% slower.

Windows XP looks better, and has less problems then windows 2000 (at least less noticable :P)
So, first take a very firm look at windows XP before saying it is crap. WE ALL USE WINDOWS ! And why ? because linux is too hard to learn, and full of beta stuff like: version 0.88

I stick with windows !

[nathan999]

Windows is crap. I use it 'cause I need it (the proggies I am acustomed to work with run under DOS/Windows), but... Well, what about a self-destroying operating system? Windows connected to the intentet means a hard-drive formatting and stuff reinstall at least once a year.

[ZeroCoolxls]

I have been using WinXP Pro for 6 - 7 months now and haven't had any problems. Why would you go with 98 it has no security features. WinXP has all the drivers that i need and you don't have to use Windows Meadia Player I use Music match Jukebox 7.1 and it works perfectly.

[PALAEOLOGOS]

Do VB6 programs (not teh actual VB6 program) work on XP or are there any problems?

The above talk reminds me of my self when WIn3.1 replaced DOS. I always used to recommend DOS over WIn3.1 because Win3.1 was slow, buggy and heck it didn't even have a way of partitioning drives (that I knew of). Eventually I started using WIn3.1 since no one could use or view your work without it.

Win95 was cool
Win98 SE was the best so far
Win NT--> 4 = Crap
WinXP = SpyWare trashy .comware
win200 = good

I can say to anyone that WIn98 aside a few new cool DLL's like the image dll of XP has a way better and more stable system.....imagine XP I say this because I have installed countless operating systems and fixed software and hardawrae comps for years now. I am still selling Win98 SE for as long as it is legally possible to do so.