Update SP6

[BeeJ]

I work on two laptops.
Laptop 1 and Laptop 2 both have full VB6 SP6 and run and compile all my
apps OK.

If I transfer an app from Laptop 1 to Laptop 2 I get an error on
attempting to load into the IDE regarding mscomctl.OCX.

Laptop 1 changes the mscomctl.OCX to a different rev number. The
Object={xxx} is identical on both.

So on laptop 2 I have to edit this line as follows, changing the 2.x to
2.0. Then all runs OK.
#2.0#0; mscomctl.OCX

So I decided to go to Microsoft.Com and get the latest update at
Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Service Pack 6 Cumulative Update
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=7030
With a date published of 8/16/2012.

Unfortunately on Laptop 2 when I try to install it I get:

"In order to install Cumulative Update for Micorosoft
Visual Basic 6.0 SP6 (KB2708437), you must have
Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 SP6 Product Installed."

Huh?

I looked at the Laptop 2 IDE About and it has no SP mentioned.
I reran SP6 and tried again but still the update would not go.
Other updates do run but do not provide a later that 2.0 mscomctl.OCX.

IDE Components do show e.g.
Microsoft Windows Common Controls 6.0 (SP6)
and others.

[MM]

Post by BeeJ
I work on two laptops.
Laptop 1 and Laptop 2 both have full VB6 SP6 and run and compile all my
apps OK.
If I transfer an app from Laptop 1 to Laptop 2 I get an error on
attempting to load into the IDE regarding mscomctl.OCX.
Laptop 1 changes the mscomctl.OCX to a different rev number. The
Object={xxx} is identical on both.
So on laptop 2 I have to edit this line as follows, changing the 2.x to
2.0. Then all runs OK.
#2.0#0; mscomctl.OCX
So I decided to go to Microsoft.Com and get the latest update at
Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Service Pack 6 Cumulative Update
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=7030
With a date published of 8/16/2012.
"In order to install Cumulative Update for Micorosoft
Visual Basic 6.0 SP6 (KB2708437), you must have
Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 SP6 Product Installed."
Huh?
I looked at the Laptop 2 IDE About and it has no SP mentioned.
I reran SP6 and tried again but still the update would not go.
Other updates do run but do not provide a later that 2.0 mscomctl.OCX.
IDE Components do show e.g.
Microsoft Windows Common Controls 6.0 (SP6)
and others.

You're not alone. I don't think anyone fully understands Microsoft's
various attempts to get a working version of SP6 out there. And their
explanations on the respective web pages are as clear as mud.

MM

[Blue Planet]

Post by BeeJ
I work on two laptops.
Laptop 1 and Laptop 2 both have full VB6 SP6 and run and compile all my
apps OK.
If I transfer an app from Laptop 1 to Laptop 2 I get an error on
attempting to load into the IDE regarding mscomctl.OCX.
Laptop 1 changes the mscomctl.OCX to a different rev number. The
Object={xxx} is identical on both.
So on laptop 2 I have to edit this line as follows, changing the 2.x to
2.0. Then all runs OK.
#2.0#0; mscomctl.OCX
So I decided to go to Microsoft.Com and get the latest update at
Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Service Pack 6 Cumulative Update
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=7030
With a date published of 8/16/2012.
"In order to install Cumulative Update for Micorosoft
Visual Basic 6.0 SP6 (KB2708437), you must have
Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 SP6 Product Installed."
Huh?
I looked at the Laptop 2 IDE About and it has no SP mentioned.
I reran SP6 and tried again but still the update would not go.
Other updates do run but do not provide a later that 2.0 mscomctl.OCX.
IDE Components do show e.g.
Microsoft Windows Common Controls 6.0 (SP6)
and others.
--
Present and unaccounted for.

The Cumulative Update is a post-SP6 security patch. It is not SP6 itself.
The newest SP6 package is SP6b and should be turned up with a fairly simple
Web search.

FYI: That Cumulative Update has been re-released several times since the
initial December 2008 attempt. All of them are buggy (full off fatal
off-by-one errors) though some of the time-bombs won't necessarily blow up
in every program and every one of the altered (broken) controls the update
installs.

It also cannot be uninstalled, and the only clean reversal is to reformat
and reinstall Windows.

[CoderX]

Yeah, look at who you are asking to do his own web search...

"Blue Planet" <***@noname.com> wrote in message news:k1r3an$n32$***@speranza.aioe.org...

The newest SP6 package is SP6b and should be turned up with a fairly simple
Web search