Windows 10: Old VB6 App

Hi,
I'm hoping I can get some suggestions for these small problems I and a few others are having with an old VB6 application which is not working properly under Win10. The vast majority of this program is working fine, just 2 (so far!) small functions are not working.
1. The program reacts to function keys and carries out custom actions. On a laptop which assigns actions to the same keys they are not being reported to the program properly, For example F2 & F3 continue to adjust the laptop volume rather than being reported to the software. I'm unsure if this is a Windows 10 problem or one with the laptop but I'd like to find a way to stop it happening. I do suspect it's the laptop as it doesn't happen on a desktop which doesn't have these keys assigned but I don't know why this happens or how to stop it.
2. Slightly odder. The program reacts to mouse-wheel moves, it uses them to scroll a grid on its' screen. Under Windows 8 and earlier this works perfectly but under Win10 the first move is fine (so the program gets the first wheel move and scrolls the grid one row) but after that nothing, if I click onto a different row the program again will scroll once with the mouse-wheel then nothing. This is just weird(!) and I have no idea at all what could cause it.
This last problem does not happen on computers running earlier versions of Windows. I have tried running the program in Win7 and WinXP compatibility mode, and Admin mode, but these make no improvement.
Any and all suggestions would be very gratefully received.
Many thanks
Ian

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Query about compatbility of Visual Basic 6 with Windows 10

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an emulated environment all the time. I wish Microsoft to get seriously the comments/critisism of VB6 developments and make his miracle to support VB6 devlopment in Win10. I own a favour to Bill gates as he gave the opportunity to develop Win apps

in an easy way, back to 1998. Me and other self-taught VB6 developers feel to express our gratitudes for that, and expect some in Microsoft still to share his vision... On the other hand, supporting VB6 in Win10 will make easier for Microsoft to hit the
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"I just installed Windows 10 Technical Preview today (01-OCt-2014) on VmWare Desktop. Vb6 + SP6 installed easier than Win7/Win8 with no tricks necessary other than 'Run As Administrator'. Initial testing shows
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"Just installed our rather complex vb6 application on it and it worked just fine."

"Well boys and girls my VB6 Activex EXE thing works in the first Windows 10 Tech Preview. So we do have yet another stay of execution. Smart Microsoft, Smart."

"Actually, to refer to an earlier comment, running a VB6 Win10 is superior to running on XP as it manages memory much better, particularly in graphics apps, where my VB6 code will let me handle 220 megapixels
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Is there any way to use old VB6 *.HLP-files for Windows10 users ? MSDN works OK, but the old Help-files were short and easy to find the subject required. I still got the files, but no way to use them.

 

Look in bios settings for option to invert function keys.

 

Thanks for the suggestion, you were correct, the laptop was incorrectly setup to always action the F keys.

As far as the Mousewheel problem is concerned, this is because Microsoft in their stupidity have changed the MW_Mousewheel message in Windows 10 so that it now goes to the Window with focus rather than the one under the mouse pointer. Exactly why they felt this change necessary I don't know, it has something to do with the original purpose of the mousewheel being to zoom rather than scroll, but it's a real pita *Mad

 

Did you try playing with this setting? It is new in 10 and affects scrolling the window the mouse is over rather than the one in focus...





As to why they changed it I don't know but I prefer it personally - Windows acts like all other OS now...

 

Interesting. My mouse setting that you showed was set to On, I changed it to Off and it seems to revert it to pre-10 ways which works fine. Thank-you!