VB Visual Basic Program on x86

-Correct
-It gives that error about no app being associated with it - needs to be run first
-Yes attached

There is something seriously messed up with that PVBHOST2.dll. The x86 CE CAB installer just won't properly complete regsrv on it. It is running, but for some reason never finishes all of its registration. It manages 80% of it but seems to just be exiting. Yet you're seeing no error.

Try these

Use -first, first. If that doesn't work, try -manual

-first: Doesn't work. it immediately flashes on/off
-second: YASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS GAGA SLAYYYY....
(translation: it worked)
But. No VB icons display, but VB does work now! It just has a "disassociated" icon, but they launch correctly. I attached my registry in case you needed.


Edited by torch 2023-01-28 4:50 AM

How the hell does the first one not work. I don't get it. The only difference was that pvbhost2.dll was the first file in the CAB.

I'm not sure why the icon is missing because it is registered. Can you soft reset and check, then try the cab again?

I can’t soft reset because all of the data is stored in some RAM disk and gets undid at reboot. I assume the registry is persistent because the start menu icons for the programs I installed still show but won’t execute because there’s no files associated.

So did the icon appear, because your reg dump says that it should be?

Is there a way to force a refresh ? Think akin to killing explorer.exe?
Forcing the system to redraw?
I Can try in total commander and gsfinder too later
I’m content with you finalizing this.
Edit ^ meaning I’m not going to nitpick about my device and icons. It technically works

Edited by torch 2023-01-28 8:37 AM

If a reboot won't fix it and you can't hard reset and clicking the icon and hitting F5 doesn't force a redraw? Older CE versions didn't cache, not sure about CE6

Okay don’t kill me.
When i tested your last cab I was in a rush and I
I didn’t try your last vb cab with advanced timer.
I did my other vb file which worked. But advanced timer doesn’t. It crashes saying pvbload had an error.

I don’t get it C:Amie. :/

Are you able to hard rest this thing, or are the registry stores persistent?

I wish it gave more info about the PVBLoad error. I take it that advanced timer works okay on your CE 3.00 machine? I tested it in the 2.11 emulator and it was fine, but that isn't 3.00+.

The only thing I can think of is changing the version of makecab that CABMaker uses. It's using the newest one that I could find, perhaps I'll try switching it to an older one.

Disregard.
Advanced Timer doesn’t seem to work on x86
So your cab is working. Our control was the issue.

I think I can get about 65% of the vb programs in the SCL running on x86 (and marked as so)

That is equally weird as it is such a basic app and we should explore it further. Sounds like a missing control dll.

But no clsid error?
It has presumably got to be another failing dll registration.


So:
.vb files work at around 65% success rate
No .vb files have working icons even though 65% of the apps work?

Can you check the program files folder for me? Make sure there are no misplaced files or folders. Same with Windows, look for odd VBCE folders that shouldn't exist.

I have been through the reg file for the working icon (6) and the reg file for the working .vb with no icon (we'll call that 7). The only difference is that 6's DLL's are in the registry in upper case and 7's are in lower case. As Windows is case insensitive, it shouldn't make a blind bit of difference.

The two attached are the same again a re-gen of the CAB with the file order changed that didn't work, auto regsrv. The manual one is the manual registration with manual icon registration this time.

These two are exactly the same as above, but are made using the v2.2 of Microsoft's cab zipper tool instead of version 4.5.

Note that there is a size difference!

Here is a test version of the Pocket Outlook API. If it works, then it might let you use Pocket Outlook on a device that doesn't have it (or a third party app like CE Agenda that relies on their stores) (perhaps Pocket Outlook from the 2.11 emulator?)