As a vb6 user it's sort of disappointing to think that the best you can hope for from a new Windows is that nothing changes.
Thankfully there are projects on the go now that promise to deliver us from this limbo!
Printable View
As a vb6 user it's sort of disappointing to think that the best you can hope for from a new Windows is that nothing changes.
Thankfully there are projects on the go now that promise to deliver us from this limbo!
Virtual desktops, disposable sandboxes, hyperv, etc were all great additions to windows 10 and have helped me develop vb6 apps. I expect windows 10.1 or 11 or whatever they call it do deliver more of the same.
Has anyone seen anything definitive that VB 6.0 will not run after Windows 11? Support stopped a while ago but the runtimes still work on Windows 10.
just rumors about windows 11, it could be as DllHell wrote, just a major update, like 10.1
that shouldn't make VB6 not working. but if the UI is changing, with edged corners and other UI-changes it could affect the form positioning again.
vb6/vba are integrated in a way that its unlikely it will stop working.
sure, if theres a windows 11, it could make vb6 stop working, but that will also mean that a major part of all applications we have in windows will not work as well.
Maybe no more 32 bit support :eek2:
No. What will happen is that the new Windows will go up to 11, not just 10 like any other o/s but up to 11.
Strange, they've said that Windows 10 would be the last, and every new version would be labeled Windows 10.
That was just corporate bullship guaranteed to last as long the current management was in place and no longer. Does anyone here still believe a single thing that MS says?
I think it is just hype, much like the phony "military UFO video leaks" making the rounds right now.
I spent some time on the web and couldn't find anything "definitive"...maybe it is too soon for the public to know. Could be quite a fuss if they dropped it.
The current insider builds are still happily supporting 32 bit code so I can't see it being dropped any time soon. Interestingly they are also supporting graphical Linux apps as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by TysonLPrice
Is it the year of the Linux desktop yet or is it coming soon? :-))Quote:
Originally Posted by PlausiblyDamp
cheers,
</wqw>
Could be interesting, Windows 10 as Linux for the Desktop :DQuote:
Originally Posted by wqweto
All the advantages of the Linux desktop with all the disadvantages of the Windows desktop.
I think there is a difference between a plan changing and outright lies. Are we really upset that microsoft is changing a number? lolQuote:
Originally Posted by yereverluvinuncleber
Who said they were upset? Are you? Not me.
However, absorbing and accepting the corporate bullship that comes with any Microsoft or Apple release is another thing entirely...
some people seem pretty salty that a comment from a single person at microsoft 6 years ago wasn't upheld for eternity :lol:
Regardless of anything, the important thing seems to be missed - it's going to 11, not 10 but 11. All the way to eleven.
Windows 11 : Is that real?
Quote:
It's not real.
I'll believe there is a WIndows 11 coming when Microsoft says so, anything else is speculation at best and hoax at worst.
https://www.indiatoday.in/technology...885-2021-06-07Quote:
Originally Posted by DataMiser
https://www.tomshardware.com/feature...ything-we-know
Hmm. Interesting, I looked it up yesterday and everything I saw that looked even the slightest bit official said that Microsoft has absolutely no plans to release a Windows 11 this year. They will of course update Windows 10.
Windows 10 Professional USB3, is quite new to the IT world. However the quick dismissial of Windows 8/8.1 would speak quite alot of bounds, in fact of the matter is there in the desktop Windows OS age
USB3 ? No idea what you mean by that. USB3 has been around for about a decade now which is forever in the IT world. Windows 10 also has been around for about 6 years which again in the IT world is a very long time.
There is one more possibility. They could drop the "10" from the name and just call it "Windows" from now. Apple did that with OS X which is now "macOS".
i remember mActiveX.exe, that worked for using Mac computers to run Windows COM Apps, like Object Pascal, Visual Fortran and also COBOL, even
Windows 10 will retire on 10/14/2025, so there must be coming some of successor of W10
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/lif...0-home-and-proQuote:
Microsoft will continue to support at least one Windows 10 Semi-Annual Channel until October 14, 2025.
Interesting that they would decide to keep Windows 10 around for 10 years ;) Probably they do not even know what they will have by 2025 at this point.
5 years plus 5 extended years has been a typical support life cycle for a long time. Windows 7 went through that before it died a year and a half ago. Windows 10 merely got a full 10 years instead of half and half.
Still using windows 7 and loving it.
Windows 7 is dangerous as a development platform. Around SP1 there were a ton of weird breaks with binary compatibility and typelib versioning in system libraries, mainly rubber crutches used to make 64-bit Office sort of work. These got fixed, but not in Windows 7 which was already dying back then.
Very late they released manual update band-aids, but you had to know to go find them and install them. Failure to do so results in polluted VB6 Projects that can produce code that fails on normal operating systems or *MISSING* reference confusion when tainted Projects are opened in VB6.EXE on normal operating systems.
In many ways Windows 7 was the "Windows Me" release of NT.
I will NOT use Win10. Windows XP for me and Win 7 for 64bit operation, mostly development. When Win 7 is no longer usable due to security reasons, Kubuntu + wine and eventually ReactOS - but never Win10 nor the shite that comes after. Everything else is done on Android or iphone. I see the end of Windows coming for me. TwinBasic and RADBasic are part of that plan longer term.
I darn well love Windows 10 Professional
I still use XP for 95% of my computing time.
I use W8.1 for the other 5%
Win 8 was bad, but 8.1 is great (Classic Start Menu of course).
PS My PCs are old, and die fairly often.
With XP, I create Seagate Disk Wizard images.
If PC dies, I can Restore the last image into the new (OLD'ish) PC, and do a Repair install before booting into windows.
(That re-configures my previously running XP, to handle the changed hardware).
Been running my XP for 12 years, 'migrating' into at least 3 different PCs
If anyone knows how I could do that same miracle with W8.1, I would be all ears.
I hear ya broQuote:
Originally Posted by Bobbles
using windows 7 as my main,
the windows 10 I have, is not as good and creates issues with my vb6 game-project.
as I mentioned in another thread:
compiling my project in windows 7 = result in a 100% working executable that works in windows 7 & 10 without issues
compiling my project in windows 10 = result in a broken executable that gives me random issues, such as corrupted saves, loading issues, values changes, crashes etc.
for me, stability is very important, as my game gets downloaded by thousands of people around the world using different windows.
I can't have stability issues that are impossible to fix due to some crap in windows 10.
its not that windows 10 is always creating this, but my game-project is BIG and something is not working properly.
so, for me, windows 7 is that best windows so far. and Im happy that windows 10 is to die. I hope the next windows is better.
Some of my clients, still use Microsoft Win95b and then they are happy using COMM port bar code scanners and cash registers using shelled DOS32-Bit docket printers, then so
I have Windows 7 on the machine I use for VB6 and VS2008, Windows 10 on my other machine which I also have vb6 on but rarely use it on that one. Mostly use C#, VB.Net and B4X on the Windows 10 box.
I like Windows 7 quite a bit, Windows 10 I did not like at first and some things I still do not like but overall it is good and I have adapted. Some of the software I use will not run on anything less than 10 and some of the software that will run on 7 or 8 runs better and faster on 10.
I just saw this a few minutes ago....
https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/15/2...ots-start-menu
Might lessen the speculation...maybe?
We saw the same myth pop up two years ago, and from the same nefarious sources.
This thread is geting rather juicy
A new version of the o/s? They are just pissing around with the UI again, rounded corners - my arse...
As if rounded corners, some new icons and a rejigged start menu make a new o/s?
If I came up with a Linux distro with those changes that claimed to be a new o/s - I'd be laughed at.
!! Lol !!
We'll just have to wait and see.
You can already customize Win10 a good deal without slopping on some 3rd party skinbag. I removed junklists from the taskbar, turned the Quick Launch bar back on, turned the Search Bar off, and even have Gadgets back.
That sounds, quite right. Why would we have the search bar, on the TaskBar, anyway???
I actually use it quite a lot. I really do not like the way they did the start menu. Let's say for example you want to run notepad and you do not have it pinned nor a shortcut to it on your desktop. Finding it in that start menu can be a pain but you can just type the first 1 or two characters into the search box and there it is. On my system if I type N into the box I get Notepad and Notepad++ as the top to links much faster and easier than scrolling through the Windows 10 start menuQuote:
Originally Posted by ThEiMp
But at the price of progress, i guess so
With the Search box turned off you can still click the "Start" button (or bash the Windows key) and begin typing to search. No need to take up TaskBar space.
Windows is getting better with it's flexablity, and then with more coding has made it a memory hog of my 8Gb RAM system, even so
Man, I remember when a Windows 3.11, came on three 3.5" 1.44Mb floppy disks, and it was considered to be programmatically sound
You can put the search as an icon. Now I don't remember how I've done that.Quote:
Originally Posted by dilettante
Attachment 181665
You can turn the redundant icon off as well. You can also eliminate "powned to Taskbar" to make things even better.
Does builtin search work for you? My experience is that it often stalls on various Win10 installations, is very slow and returns a lot of useless results. On recent releases I'm unable to even find program's main shortcut in Start Menu->Programs for a just installed application.
https://www.voidtools.com/ - I've been using Everything for searching for everything on my disks for quite some time now and it's such a joy. It directly reads (and caches) the NTFS logs so catching up on modifications (reindexing) is instantaneous.
cheers,
</wqw>
That sounds great. i turned it completely off and then use the explorer for my searching needs, which i think is so cool, even
I have no idea why you say it is redundant.Quote:
Originally Posted by dilettante
I don't turn it off because I use it a lot.
Anyway, for anyone wanting to configure it:
Attachment 181666
Is that what you were refering to. Well i already knew about that from Windows 10 Professional. I turn mine off totally, because i think it uses far too much system resources, like so
It works for me, but I use it only to start programs, not for anything else.Quote:
Originally Posted by wqweto
You write 'calc' and the calculator appear, you write 'restore' or 'point' and system restore appear, you write 'vs' and vscode appear (for Windows programs you may need to write their names in the current UI language)
All the programs that I use more I have them pinned, but I use that for less frequently used programs.
What I have left out is Cortana.
I have 12 programs pinned. Besides that, I could be running one, two or thee more. So I have half of the taskbar still free, do not need to economize space.
Who needs Cortana, anyway. it is just a simple rip off from Apple's version, am I right or then wrong, then
I usually have ten or eleven programs running on my Taskbar, if that means anything to you guys