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I have been having fun with my new laptop and
Windows Vista. Actually it doesn't suck too badly, except that the
HP LaserJet 1020 support in Vista is badly broken, but I have written about it before. HP lost out on a laptop sale because of this problem, and will probably lose out on our next printer purchase as well.
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Today's WOW revelation (remember "
The WOW Starts Now" slogan?) is that the trusted VB "Sendkeys" function has been disabled in
Vista, breaking a gazillion VB6 programs, as well as some key (ahem) parts of
Miami/Mustang. Fortunately I found a
library written by
Karl E Peterson that required only minor tweaking to get it to work in
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In the process I discovered that the
Access97 help function doesn't work in
Vista until you install a help file program. That in turn required me to validate my copy of Windows again, which doesn't work properly in
Firefox, so I had to go to the URL using IE7. What a mission!
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The dreaded UAC (User Annoyance Control) is a little more manageable if you use the
Norton UAC program from
Norton Labs.
Update: Any Access97 developer who needs SendKeys and who does not have the time and/or energy to modify Karl Peterson's
code, can email me for a modified copy: vmusic at spamcop dot net.
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