leezinho

Visual Basic has stopped working on my computer. (At Run time it says "Data Execution Prevention: To help protect your computer, Windows has closed this program.")

I want to reinstall VB from the CD-ROM. But first I want to save the annotations I made to the old Help pages. The ones I can remember making, I can retrieve from the respective pages, no problem. But how can I find and preserve the others?

I looked at one of my annotations, selected a unique phrase, and did a global search for a file containing that phrase on the Local Hard Drive (C: ), but this search said there are no results to display. So I'm guessing my annotations are encoded and stored in something other than WYSIWYG.

How can I identify the file where my annotations are, in order to protect them from a reinstall?

vb5prgrmr

Check the registry...


Good Luck

dilettante

You might look at http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/859/rb_8595.html for useful info.

WinHelp is so old you almost never see it anymore. It doesn't even work in Vista unless you download and install the software for it.

Of course VB5 is completely unsupported now anyway. Part of the reason is that it is riddled with DEP violations, but most of the reason is that it was replaced by VB6 in 1998. We're lucky that even VB6 programs are still supported.

Support Statement for Visual Basic 6.0 on Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7

leezinho

dilettante --
Thanks for your observations. Maybe reinstalling VB5 is not the solution for my greater problem of DEP violations? You said it is "riddled" with them. So the problem is in my VB, and not, for example, something residual from my recent encounter with a virus? In a way, that would be good news. Would you advise me to stop trying to "fix" the situation with VB5 and just spring for a newer edition?