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hello everybody,
I am installing some (~10y old) research software which must have been using vb4, because when I started installing it failed because it was looking for vb40016.dll (got that) than oc25.dll (got that one too), and then PUSHHELP.VBX.
This is where I got stuck, there a lot of references online to pushhelp.vbx, but as an ERROR. Although it is listed as a small file of 25k, I don't seem to be able to find it anywhere.

I tried to install vb4 runtime libraries on this laptop (running XP media) but that pushhelp file is still not on my pc.

I tried to install vb3, hoping that maybe pushhelp would have been installed by that one already, but no luck. Currently emule-ing vb4, but it may never finish to download; also I wonder if this is really the way to go (since vb3 did not solve my problem. - OK pushhelp maybe a file which is only found in vb4, this is what I do not know).

Any Idea of what celse ould be my next step? bear in mind that there is a distint possibility that after I find pushhelp, the installer may look for another file.. this is why I installed the vb4 runtime libraries, but obviously that was not enough.


many thanks in advance,
berillio

p.s. Apologies to the moderators: could you please delete my ORIGINAL posting on a more general forum (post781405) - someone kindly pointed me to the right place...
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.vbx files are typically related to modern day .ocx files. They are basically old-school custom controls. In order for the software to work, it will require this file. Chances are it was a file written by the person or company responsible for the software, and has sense gone the way of "old yeller".

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well, the software requires it all right, it would not abort out of the installation otherwise.

so, you are saying that it is NOT a file which will be installed by a normal vb4 installation.

the point is, if you google it you find a reference to it
http://dllinfo.dll-free-download.org/detail/4201-PUSHHELP.vbx.html

does anybody know WHERE I can find it? maybe some of you guys has it on your pc already, hidden somewhere....

otherwise, I'll keep trawling the net, in case I trip into it..

thanks for coming back to me, at least I know that there is no point in installing vb4.....

berillio

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Unfortunately it's not on mine:

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\Erebus>cd \

C:\>dir /a/s/b *.vbx
File Not Found

C:\>

I've also spent a lot of time looking for it, and no luck. I would consider, if you have VB3 or VB4 though, to consider writing the .vbx yourself, and just making it nothing more than a simple .vbx, that does nothing at all. Then it may load, and give you functionality of the program, but won't let you do anything that uses that control...

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