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  1. Apr 5th, 2002, 03:56 PM #1
    marilyn934
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    Angry VB4 16bit and Windows 2000

    Can anyone provide feedback on VB4 16bit applications and Windows 2000? They insisted that they upgrade my PC to win2000 and now many things within my application will not work. Are there some things in VB4 16 bit that just cannot be done on win2000? Or does it just take a lot of manipulation and code change?
    If anyone has done this, please provide input on your results.
    Thanks you
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  2. Apr 5th, 2002, 04:59 PM #2
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    16 bit apps are run in a VM in Win 2K. The VM is fully responsible for emulating a 16 bit environment, but becuase one does not really exist, alot of resources are not there if they are called.

    If your app relies on other 16 bit apps to be running together with it, you will find that you have many difficulties running your app.
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  3. Apr 5th, 2002, 08:32 PM #3
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    shell

    So far, the first thing I noticed that doesn't work is a shell function that I use to open a webpage. When I had windows NT it went right to the htm doc when the user clicked the button, but now it does nothing when the button is clicked
    I had to edit the registry to get rid of a VDD error, but I still get an error when I do something in visual sourcesafe and then open VB4.
    I'm not sure if any of that is related to the VM thing.....
    Thanks for replying,
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  4. Apr 5th, 2002, 08:45 PM #4
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    It would be easier to change it to vb4 32 bit, or vb5/6
    See if your company will let you do that
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  6. Apr 8th, 2002, 07:15 AM #5
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    already tried. There are no funds available for that. I have played around with the 32bit VB4 but there were lots of problems with that too
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