Re: Bad characters in Recent File list

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> 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


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