VB6 MSCOMM wroks on one PC and not another

[mister_e]

Oh there's tons of idiot errors message since i own Windows (my first was 3.0), such as "this program has perform an illegal operation and will be shut down" etc etc.. huh.. who thought to code it

At boot... "No keyboard detected.. press F1 to resume" (OK That's Bios)

now with Vista (thanks i don't have it yet) some may have fun reading this
http://blog.gadgetlite.com/2007/12/1...celess-though/

and seems the Blue screen of death have been there for Vista as well


one of my favourite banned commercial...

[T.Jackson]

one of my favourite banned commercial...

That is bloody terrible! I hope Microsoft sued and got millions! Sun micro system's products are far from perfect either. I have just lost an incredible amount of respect for Sun. I now understand why MS will never ship their OS with Java run times.

[mister_e]

Can't tell for sure.. i'm not a Java coder... the only thing i know pretty well of Java is coffee

[T.Jackson]

Can't tell for sure.. i'm not a Java coder... the only thing i know pretty well of Java is coffee

Who am I kidding, Java's faultless and up to 20 times more efficient than most other MS languages apart from C++, but that commercial sucks harder than a heated vacum cleaner.

[mister_e]

... mmm... this remember me my ex girlfriend

Oups... sorry... she's probably reading this

Bah, she saw worst on Facebook...

[T.Jackson]

Actually I can think of one fault with Java. Sun advise against mixing Swing & AWT GUI components as it may cause unpredictable problems. (RMIT University lecture notes)

So there you go, Java is sub perfect!

[skimask]

Oh there's tons of idiot errors message since i own Windows (my first was 3.0), such as "this program has perform an illegal operation and will be shut down" etc etc.. huh.. who thought to code it

Do you still have a PC running anything earlier than XP?
One of the bugs that was with Windows from 95 thru ME, it finally got fixed was that stupid 'stuck menu' bug. You'd open up a folder, pull down a menu, without clicking anything, move the mouse off the open folder/menu, open up a 2nd folder, and the menu that you pulled down in the first folder would be stuck, even after you closed the original folder. And the only way to get rid of it short of a reboot, was to kill Explorer and reopen it thru Ctrl-Alt-Del.

[JD123]

Do you still have a PC running anything earlier than XP?
One of the bugs that was with Windows from 95 thru ME, it finally got fixed was that stupid 'stuck menu' bug. You'd open up a folder, pull down a menu, without clicking anything, move the mouse off the open folder/menu, open up a 2nd folder, and the menu that you pulled down in the first folder would be stuck, even after you closed the original folder. And the only way to get rid of it short of a reboot, was to kill Explorer and reopen it thru Ctrl-Alt-Del.

Funny you should mention this. I'm using a 1 month old XP computer with a clean install, nothing extra installed, no internet and only enough programs to do PIC's - it's a dedicated PIC computer. Last night I had the same hanging menu problem. I was hoping a clean computer would stop things like this.

[skimask]

Funny you should mention this. I'm using a 1 month old XP computer with a clean install, nothing extra installed, no internet and only enough programs to do PIC's - it's a dedicated PIC computer. Last night I had the same hanging menu problem. I was hoping a clean computer would stop things like this.

I haven't been able to duplicate the hanging menu thing in XP, but then again, it's XP SP2 (or is it 3 now?). I don't remember if the bug still existed in XP (raw) or SP1. Something tells me it was still there, but I'm not 100% on that.