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From: Nobody on 19 Jan 2010 12:09
"Tony Toews [MVP]" <ttoews(a)telusplanet.net> wrote in message
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> I also had one user state the IT department removed the VB6 runtime
> from PCs due to security issues.

I never heard of Admins doing that. Are you sure they meant VB6 runtimes,
and not Windows Script Hosting(VBScript)? The latter is easy to disable. VB6
Runtime are part of the protected system files in Windows 2000 to 7, and so
they are not easy to remove, but nothing is impossible. VB5/6 have 6 runtime
files, 5 of which are shared between the two versions, and one is
different(MSVBVM50.DLL vs. MSVBVM60.DLL).

INFO: List of Visual Basic Run-Time Files Installed by Product
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/187282


From: Tony Toews [MVP] on 19 Jan 2010 15:21
"Mike Williams" <Mike(a)WhiskyAndCoke.com> wrote:

>> I also had one user state the IT department removed the VB6
>> runtime from PCs due to security issues.
>
>If they're that worried about security issues then they need to remove
>Windows :-)

Hehehe Good point.

Tony
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From: Tony Toews [MVP] on 19 Jan 2010 16:07
"Nobody" <nobody(a)nobody.com> wrote:

>> I also had one user state the IT department removed the VB6 runtime
>> from PCs due to security issues.
>
>I never heard of Admins doing that. Are you sure they meant VB6 runtimes,
>and not Windows Script Hosting(VBScript)? The latter is easy to disable.

No I don't know that. However I have to assume that he unzipped and
attempted to execute the VB6 exe I created and it failed with the
appropriate error message. Which I've documented on my website for
folks years back who were running the VB6 exe from Win 98.

Tony
--
Tony Toews, Microsoft Access MVP
Tony's Main MS Access pages - http://www.granite.ab.ca/accsmstr.htm
Tony's Microsoft Access Blog - http://msmvps.com/blogs/access/
For a convenient utility to keep your users FEs and other files
updated see http://www.autofeupdater.com/
Granite Fleet Manager http://www.granitefleet.com/
From: Ralph on 19 Jan 2010 17:35
Tony Toews [MVP] wrote:
> "Nobody" <nobody(a)nobody.com> wrote:
>
>>> I also had one user state the IT department removed the VB6 runtime
>>> from PCs due to security issues.
>>
>> I never heard of Admins doing that. Are you sure they meant VB6
>> runtimes, and not Windows Script Hosting(VBScript)? The latter is
>> easy to disable.
>
> No I don't know that. However I have to assume that he unzipped and
> attempted to execute the VB6 exe I created and it failed with the
> appropriate error message. Which I've documented on my website for
> folks years back who were running the VB6 exe from Win 98.
>


"However I have to assume that <the user> ... "

As Gary Larson would say - "Trouble brewing". <g>

-ralph


From: Tony Toews [MVP] on 19 Jan 2010 18:56
"Ralph" <nt_consulting64(a)yahoo.com> wrote:

>>>> I also had one user state the IT department removed the VB6 runtime
>>>> from PCs due to security issues.
>>>
>>> I never heard of Admins doing that. Are you sure they meant VB6
>>> runtimes, and not Windows Script Hosting(VBScript)? The latter is
>>> easy to disable.
>>
>> No I don't know that. However I have to assume that he unzipped and
>> attempted to execute the VB6 exe I created and it failed with the
>> appropriate error message. Which I've documented on my website for
>> folks years back who were running the VB6 exe from Win 98.
>>
>"However I have to assume that <the user> ... "
>
>As Gary Larson would say - "Trouble brewing". <g>

Well yeah <shrug> But it was a free utility back then. Now it's
voluntary licensed. And the users are Access developers who install
it to make their life easier. Now if they don't know the difference
between running my VB6 exe and VBScript well, I don't really want them
as users of my utility. <smile>

Tony
--
Tony Toews, Microsoft Access MVP
Tony's Main MS Access pages - http://www.granite.ab.ca/accsmstr.htm
Tony's Microsoft Access Blog - http://msmvps.com/blogs/access/
For a convenient utility to keep your users FEs and other files
updated see http://www.autofeupdater.com/
Granite Fleet Manager http://www.granitefleet.com/
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