I am sure I have had something like this answered before, but I can't find it!

I had VB5 (Enterprise edition) working fine under XP on my laptop, but unfortunately the motherboard died. As I can no longer get one with XP, I had to buy one with Vista (Home).

I have installed VB5 OK< but I cannot get it to register or recognise some (non-microsoft) OCX modules that I need. (Unable to register ..message).

Can you remind me what I need to do to fix this?

Also, I get a message that Vista does not support Window Help files. Is it possible to install the old help module to read them?

I cannot see the VB5 help at present- this seems a remarkable omission of backwards compatibility.

How come yoy can't have WinXP on your laptop ? Isn't it possible at all to install on your hard disk the operation system YOU like ?

It might be, but there might not be XP drivers for the hardware. Unlikely, but I don't have time to play about uninstalling and reinstalling. My version of XP was pre-installed on a previous laptop, which unfortunately developed a motherboard fault. No master disks. The Hard drive is OK, but if I used it on a different laptop, all the device drivers would probably be different.

I had big problems when the disk in my SONY laptop died some years ago. I couldn't get the exact size hard disk any more, and the system restore disk was preset for that size. It dumped a hidden non-DOS partition where it thought the end of the drive was.

I now have my XP laptop restored to health! Problem seems to have been in the memory, not motherboard.

So back to my HELP question: How can I distribute the HELP with my VB5 program, (Using XP Windows HELP ) so that it works under VISTA? Can this be done?

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pavane wrote:
Also, I get a message that Vista does not support Window Help files. Is it possible to install the old help module to read them?

I cannot see the VB5 help at present- this seems a remarkable omission of backwards compatibility.

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