Windows 10: VB6 Help file location

I've installed an old version of VB6 on my Windows 10 64 bit system. The program works fine,but when I click on Help all I get is the message 'Unable to display Help'.
Can someone tell me where the help files would have been installed, and the file names?

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mscomctl.ocx in Windows 10 no longer will load

It's not simply a matter of registering it. Here's what I know so far:

Apparently Microsoft has created a new version of MSCOMCTL.OCX that is now distributed with some office products (such as MS Access). When installed it can be found in the folder
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\root\VFS\SystemX86 and is version
7.0.52.6282 dated 9/3/2017.

Moving this to the location where the VB6 IDE wants it (c:\windows\SysWOW64) will now allow the VB6 IDE to work but you must have already registered the previous version with regsvr32. If you try to register the new version you get an error. Also - in
the components view of the VB6 IDE you get TWO copies of MSCOMCTL.OCX - but at least the VB6 IDE continues to work.

You CANNOT distribute the newer version of MSCOMCTL.OCX (the 7.x version) because it will fail to register. So you must be careful to redistribute an older copy of MSCOMCTL.OCX.

Obviously this is messed up.

It looks like a Windows 10 Update has broken the MSCOMCTL.OCX for the VB6 IDE only.

 

Visual Basic 6

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.

 

Hi there. Because of security concerns MS has not allowed .hlp files to open even with the WinHlp32 Viewer, for that won't load either.

Unless someone has another means, you may want to search the Net for another way or see if you can find a pdf file.

I found these search results: open help files in windows 10 - Bing

 

Thanks, I'll see what I can find on the internet.

 

From the link given I went to this one:
Microsoft Community
At the very last posting the instructions work fine.

 

I have Win 10 1607 build 14393.1593 (64bit) installed and XP Office (32bit) that use VB6.
When I go to the VB6 folder and click directly on the help files, they open as they should, all functions are OK!




Hope that helps.

 

@cpat

You may want to look at the article linked below. Make sure to read all the cautions in the article about compatibility and security, especially with macros.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/...-included-or-h

 

I installed the help thingy and it works, have some old .hlp files and can read them. Here's the .hlp file I copied from an old program by double-clicking to open and copying:

I don't know if installing such a program will pick up the build-in help feature or not, don't know when I'll have a chance to check.