VB 6 app correctly not working on windows 7 Starter

Hi everyone,

I have created a application on VB 6.0. on form load it checks for the record in user table if no user is found it takes to another form for user creation. After the user has created system prompts for login.

This works without any problem on windows 7 profession, ultimate and home edition. I have also tried it on windows XP and windows server 2003 and 2008 edition. But my client is using Windows 7 Starter with SP 1 on HP mini computer.

After installation of package, system directly prompts for login and do not take to sign up page first. Since there is no user already present I am unable to login. It seems that query for user search is not working.

Can anyone help? I am stuck with this problem.

I am using MS-Access database but client doesn't have ms-office installed on it. They are using openOffice.

Thanks

Thread moved from the FAQ forum, which is not the place to post your questions.

If you are opening .MDB files via DAO or ADO you are not "using MS-Access database" even if the database was originally created using MS Access. What you are doing is using a Jet database, which may or may not have extended structures in it that Access dumps in there.

This distinction is relevant because MS Access wouldn't be required on the system unless your program is doing something very odd such as automating an instance of MS Access itself. That seems extremely unlikely from your description above, so the presence of OpenOffice instead of MS Office (or just Access) doesn't matter.

Remember, Jet 4.0 is an operating system component and not part of MS Access.

As far as I can tell from the meager information offered by Microsoft to developers the Starter Editions of Windows should be able to run a simple program like the one you describe. See Let’s talk about Windows 7 Starter for one of the few authoritative meaningful discussions I have seen on the topic. Even that is pretty thin on details but suggests you shouldn't be having trouble.


This might be tough to troubleshoot without a Win7 Starter system. Microsoft hasn't provided any testing VHDs and you can't buy it as a retail package as far as I can tell. That probably means you'd need an MSDN Subscription or else buy a Win7 Starter Edition netbook or something as an Average Joe.

Link good today, probably not tomorrow though: MSDN Subscriber Downloads/Windows 7 (check about page 6)

But I doubt it is worth the $700 US minimum cost to most of us, see: Buy an MSDN Subscription