Bad characters in Recent File list

22 Oct 2005 5:54 PM

Ragnar Midtskogen

Hello,

This morning, when I tried to open a recently used VB project I noticed the
path to the project file had been garbled.
This had happened to several recently used projects.

When I looked in the registry I found that the strings contained several
non-printing characters, like hex A0, 03, 01, scattered through the
beginning of the strings.

Has anyone seen this, and if so, does anyone know how this could happen?

I have the latest Norton virus protection/Internate security as well as both
a hardware and a software firewall and several programs against worms and
spyware.

I am running VB6 SP5 on Win 2000 Pro, SP 4. At least once I reinstalled VB
because it was veeery slow to open.

Any comments appreciated.

Ragnar

22 Oct 2005 6:07 PM

Rick Rothstein [MVP - Visual Basic]

> This morning, when I tried to open a recently used VB project I
noticed the
> path to the project file had been garbled.
> This had happened to several recently used projects.
>
> When I looked in the registry I found that the strings contained
several
> non-printing characters, like hex A0, 03, 01, scattered through
the
> beginning of the strings.
>
> Has anyone seen this, and if so, does anyone know how this could
happen?

Yes, this happened to me a couple or three months ago. No, I have
no idea what caused it. The way I solved it was to clear out the
Recent list in the registry and start over. Everything seems to be
okay now. This only happened once to me in all the time I've used
VB.

> I have the latest Norton virus protection/Internate security as

well as both

> a hardware and a software firewall and several programs against
worms and
> spyware.

I use Norton AntiVirus 2005, SpamSubtract for SPAM, SpySweeper for
spyware and I have a hardware (only) firewall (it came with my
Linksys router).

> I am running VB6 SP5 on Win 2000 Pro, SP 4. At least once I
reinstalled VB
> because it was veeery slow to open.

I am using VB6 SP5 on WinXP Pro SP1.

Rick

22 Oct 2005 6:55 PM

Ragnar Midtskogen

Thank you Rick,

> Yes, this happened to me a couple or three months ago.

At least I am not the only one.

> The way I solved it was to clear out the
> Recent list in the registry and start over.

I haven't gotten that far yet, but I am going to.

> Everything seems to be okay now.

Same here, I just doubleclicked the project file and VB opened right up.

I also checked some other apps, like Access, Excel and Word and the problem
seems to be limited to VB.

> This only happened once to me in all the time I've used VB.

Same here too, and I have been using VB for about 9 years now.

Ragnar

22 Oct 2005 7:41 PM

Galen Somerville

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"Ragnar Midtskogen" <ragnar***@newsgroups.com> wrote in message
news:uUerooz1FHA.3204@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
> Thank you Rick,
>
> > Yes, this happened to me a couple or three months ago.
>
> At least I am not the only one.
>
> > The way I solved it was to clear out the
> > Recent list in the registry and start over.
>
> I haven't gotten that far yet, but I am going to.
>
> > Everything seems to be okay now.
>
> Same here, I just doubleclicked the project file and VB opened right up.
>
> I also checked some other apps, like Access, Excel and Word and the
problem
> seems to be limited to VB.
>
> > This only happened once to me in all the time I've used VB.
>
> Same here too, and I have been using VB for about 9 years now.
>
> Ragnar
>
>

Go to my web site http://home.surewest.net/galen/download/download.html and
get Rfiles22.zip

This little program cleans up, and resorts if desired, your VB6 recent files
list.

Galen

22 Oct 2005 8:12 PM

Ragnar Midtskogen

Thank you Galen,

However, I have already cleared the list.
Besides, so many of the items in the list were mangled anyway, so there was
not much to be saved by cleaning it up.

Ragnar