While I was installing Arduino for Visual Studio I encountered this annoying message: There are a few ways to fix it, including deactivating User Account Control (UAC) or logging in as the Administrator user (and not a regular user with Administrator privileges), but the method I chose to handle it was the following. I chose […]
Category: Windows
Have an old Visual Basic 6 legacy application that is demanding MSINET.OCX in order to run?. Here is a copy of Microsoft’s redistributable run time file for VB6: Download MSINET.OCX After you have downloaded the file, you can either place it in your C:\Windows\System32 (or C:\Windows\SysWow64 on an x64 system) and register it there or […]
Anyone who still works with Visual Basic 6 for legacy applications will inevitably run into an issue where a customer’s computer needs MSWINSOCK.OCX in order to run their application. You could install the entire VB6 runtime files package or you may chose to redistribute this one file with your software. In any case, I wanted […]