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July 29, 2020
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We have a VB6 program being run on a machine in our office - all of which run Windows XP Professional. It has worked up until a few days ago however now we are getting the error:
We had a problem with a VBA program recently that was due to a Microsoft security update (KB960715) and I wondered whether a similar problem could be causing this? Please let me know if you need any other details.
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If the problem was caused by a windows update, I would try to see if you can perform a system restore and go back to before the update was applied to your system. Click on the KB article number and follow the KB steps.
KB 306084
- How to restore Windows XP to a previous state