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Windows XP is no longer supported. Thus its cipher suite was never upgraded to support current SSL/TLS technology. The server was probably upgraded to use a current level of TLS ciphers.

Works fine here: Option Explicit Private Sub Form_Load() Const SCRRUN_FILE As String = "scrrun.dll" Dim DriveTypeNames As Collection Dim MemberInfo As TLI.MemberInfo Dim Drive As Scripting.Drive AutoRedraw = True Set DriveTypeNames = New Collection With New...

If you read the EULA it is pretty clear that if you do not have the "help" (MSDN Library) CDs then your copy was not legally transferred. If you had a legal copy of VS/VB 6.0 and just lost your MSDN CDs that's another story, but you can't legally sell it or even give it away.

Improving the high-DPI experience in GDI based Desktop Apps For many applications GDI Scaling can handle the problem completely or at least well enough for old programs to be usable. It can be specified via a manifest or the Compatibility tab of the EXE's Explorer Properties dialog. This...

You must define the DSN using the 32-bit ODBC Administrator. On a 64-bit system people often run the 64-bit tool instead. That results in a DSN that 32-bit applications can't use because it is in the wrong format and points to a 64-bit ODBC Driver. ODBC Administrator tool displays both the...

Not enough information. Did you define it as a 64-bit DSN? In any case DSNs are generally a bad idea, especially system DSNs. Just put the details into the connection string instead.

I agree that a ping only tells you that the server is running and reachable via a ping. It was really designed as a network connectivity test and nothing more.

IcmpSendEcho in Icmp.dll is more reliable in an application. It does not require that the heavyweight WMI Service be installed, running, and unsecured against standard user access.

File|Print... in the IDE can also print your forms. But if they have no idea what they want it is sort of a moot point.

So it does, you just need to install the SDK and then manually install the DLL as described in the readme.txt file from the SDK. Good to know for keeping old programs alive.

You do know that CAPICOM is a dead technology now, right? It can be jammed into Win7 but isn't recommended, and it doesn't work at all in current versions of Windows.

Just because the cops might not catch you going in through a window and snagging items from your neighbor's underwear drawer doesn't make it legal.

Well you could search for "B4J" which is free, has a syntax somewhere between VB6 and VB.Net, and targets the JVM so the programs it compiles are pretty portable among various OSs.

In theory even if you lose the original box your license is void. It certainly renders the product ineligible for transfer (sale or even giving it away). The EULA is very clear on this. As a result many of the copies sold on eBay aren't legal. Nobody can rip their CDs as ISOs and give them...

Install a 32-bit Windows 10. It makes more efficient use of nearly every hardware resource and there may be better driver support for your video adapter and other peripheral devices. Unless you are doing things that specifically benefit from 64-bit Windows it is usually the wrong choice. The...