The person that coined the phrase "DLL hell" nailed it right on the head. Gates is
unable to separate "operating system" from "application". Application updates,
especially, should not break the OS nor should it break other applications; but, they
do. Microsoft has been developing operating systems for 20 years and they still
can't get it right.
Regards,
Al
Bruce Nordstrand wrote:
> Hi all
>
> Just thought I'd let you know something. I previously posted a message
> regarding PB 7.0 being a resource hog. Well I tried a couple of things
> including defragmenting my drives to no avail - couldn't get it to speed up.
> This morning, I installed a new HDD (C: Drive) and installed a fresh copy of
> NT 4.0 and all it's bits. Once I had reset the network connections, I logged
> back in and my roaming profile reinstituted (almost) everything. Because I
> have everything else on D: drive I double clicked on the PB 7.0 shortcut and
> viola! it fired up without a hitch and is alot faster too!
>
> But (and the reason for this post) my VB 5.0 installation wasn't so lucky.
> Because of VB's idiotic dependency on a zillion DLL's which now do not exist
> on the new HDD, it tries to open up as the learning edition and then dies!!!
> Needless to say, I have to spend the rest of the day reinstalling VB and all
> of its custom controls and updates. Pity, as I only need the damn thing for
> checking against PB as I convert my final VB app.
>
> SO - Game 1 to PB, very impressive I must say.
>
> Regards
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