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  [Windows 7 Application Compatibility episode 7] Some application that one of my customers has has this problem when running on Windows 7. Well, this application is written in Visual Basic 6, which is not supported by Microsoft anymore. But I heard that Read More... Posted Wednesday, December 30, 2009 12:59 PM by nevermet | 0 Comments Filed under: Windows, application compatibility, Windows 7

• The minimum IE window size

  [Windows 7 Application Compatibility episode 6] One of my customers came to me and asked why IE8 cannot open a 140px wide window. Well, if you drag IE border and resize IE window to the minimum, it can be as small as 250px wide x 100px tall. That's the Read More... Posted Tuesday, December 29, 2009 12:42 PM by nevermet | 0 Comments Filed under: Windows Vista, IE, Windows, application compatibility, Windows 7

• Do you still use Visual Basic6?

  [Windows 7 Application Compatibility episode 5] One of my customers is still using VB6 applications... And this caused quite serious problems... such as 'crash'... Well, I know VB6 is not supported by Microsoft anymore... so this article cannot be official Read More... Posted Monday, December 28, 2009 3:28 PM by nevermet | 0 Comments Filed under: Windows, application compatibility, Windows 7

• Some application tries to write files under system32 folder.

  [Windows 7 Application Compatibility episode 3] Someone brought me an application complaining that it fails while installing MSVBVM60.dll... Well, I think this application tries to write this file under System32 folder before running the application, Read More... Posted Tuesday, December 01, 2009 3:57 PM by nevermet | 0 Comments Filed under: Windows Vista, Windows, application compatibility, Windows 7

• document.domain can cause invalid argument error in IE8

  One of my customers asked me how to mitigate this IE8's application compatibility issue. Well, when their application tries to execute this code, it failes with 'invalide argument' error: document.domain = somevalue ; Their web application works perfectly Read More... Posted Tuesday, July 14, 2009 12:02 PM by nevermet | 0 Comments Filed under: IE, Windows, application compatibility