Very strange? Please read.

Hi all.

I wrote a function and was working fine for the last year.
Now, whenever I try to add any word OR press Enter(design mode) VB and the whole system would freez !

Any idea why?

Thanx a lot.

You might want to try opening it on another pc that has vb. If that works, I'd reinstall vb. Otherwise, if it has dependencies, one of the other files may have become corrupted.

Thanx.

I reinstalled VB5. Still Same thing !??

The ref's I have are:

- VBA5.DLL
- MSVBVM50.DLL\2
- STDOLE2.LIB
- VB5.OLB

Moreover, after closing vb, Start menu would show
an & before each item !!

All these problem accured after installing a program that i already uninstalled :( Here is some of the setup log:

Shared DLL counter ignored:
File Overwrite: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\MSVBVM50.dll
Shared DLL counter ignored:
File Overwrite: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\ComDlg32.ocx
Version: Following file not copied.
Shared DLL counter ignored:
File Overwrite: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\Stdole2.tlb
Version: Following file not copied.
Shared DLL counter ignored:
File Overwrite: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\Oleaut32.dll
Version: Following file not copied.
Shared DLL counter ignored:
File Overwrite: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\Olepro32.dll
Version: Following file not copied.
Shared DLL counter ignored:
File Overwrite: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\Asycfilt.dll
Version: Following file not copied.
Shared DLL counter ignored:
File Overwrite: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\Comcat.dll

Please help.

Thank you.

When you reinstalled, did VB prompt you to overwrite these files? You may want to completely uninstall vb, make sure those files are removed, and then reinstall it. But first I'd open the function on another pc that has the same version of vb and see if it runs from there. If it does, you know your vb's corrupt.

Thanx WadeD

I did uninstall completly, rebooted then Reinstalled!

Any more ideas people. Please help.

Thanx.

I see that everything failed!, hmmmm...... Well I had some problems in VB too!!!, but reinstalling it and stuff didn't work!...... If you tried to messed with REGEDIT then its probably sumthing on it!........ How bout cleaning your REGEDIT!! get it at MICROSOFT - regclean...... If that doesn't work... then I don't know what else!

Have you tried opening it in vb on another pc?

Sometimes reinstalling doesn't work. What works for
me is that I completely UNINSTALL vb from my computer
then install it again as if i'm doing it for the first time.

Edited by Megatron on 03-17-2000 at 10:42 AM

Hey, I`ve got an original idea. You could always try testing the program on another pc. It seems like the most obvious, painless thing to try.

Then again, WadeD has already suggested that three times, and you`ve ignored him every time.

Why?

Hey, I`ve got an original idea. You could always try testing the program on another pc. It seems like the most obvious, painless thing to try.

Then again, WadeD has already suggested that three times, and you`ve ignored him every time.

Why?

Well, maybe he doesn't have another PC. ;)
Not everebody is so lucky.

Hope I wasn't offensive to anyone. I think many of us work in an office so other PCs are available, or maybe a friend could try it at his/her home PC. If it worked on theirs, it tells you that your vb is corrupt. If it doesn't, then you don't have to uninstall, reinstall, uninstall, reinstall.

Good luck ;)

I have had the same problem with VB5 for some reason. Usually, after a while, also, text from other problems as well as VB somehow become enlarged, mostly toolhelp of other programs. I'm not sure why this happens though.

Thanx WadeD and everybody who cared to reply or read.
I didn't mean to ignore him/her, Nor anybody in the group.
I'm always thankful.

I did try it in anthor PC :D But no Luck

In The ref's I have:

- VBA5.DLL
- MSVBVM50.DLL\2 What is the \2 For?
- STDOLE2.LIB
- VB5.OLB

By the way, when I open Or run anthor Project everything is fine !?

Also, when I run MSDN the same problem would rise !!??

Any more ideas :confused:

Thanx to all.

I reccon you should format your hard drive :)

By the way, the "&" signs ususally may appear if you run out of memory. I have a similar problem. Almost everytime when I run out of memory, strange things start to happen, one of them is in the start menu, "&" appears in front of every caption. I can't figure out what causes my memory to leak... I still haven't formatted my drive. May be I should. But I haven't tried to unisntall VB.

So, probably you run out of memory. Another sign could be if suddenly all the caption everywhere appear in "bold". E.g, on the menu captions, the caption becomes bold. That is what happens to me after I receive the "out of memory" message from VB.

Regards:
VBJ

Try editing any code through notepad, then re-open it?

I'd bet my last joint that your problem in the file comcat32.dll
and the first thing to do (although it may be pointless now that you have re-installed and tried most other things) is to search for comcat32.dll and if you have one that is OLDER the chances are that is the correct one!

Hey let me know the outcome.

DocZaf
{;->

the chances are that the file will be in constant use, and you may have to boot into a dos session and do it from there, but i can't remember how to do it.

Adios