VB6 on 64 bit OS' - Fix MSCOMCTL.OCX

[Baron]

Recently had issues loading my older sources inside the vb6 IDE - mscomctl.ocx throws an error and cannot be found. Apprently others have had this issue surrounding IE 10 and have solved by downgrading to IE 9 but the fix found below works without needing to.

came across this knowledgebase article:

[http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11982719/vb6-ide-cannot-load-mscomctl-ocx-after-update-kb-2687323/16110165#16110165](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11982719/vb6-ide-cannot-load-mscomctl-ocx-after-update-kb-2687323/16110165#16110165)

New process:

> ~ start menu > type "cmd" in run box, right click the result and run as administrator
>
> ~ cd C:\windows\sysWow64\urttemp
>
> ~ regtlib msdatsrc.tlb

inside that directory from administrator command prompt worked like a charm to fix the vb6 IDE issues.

Post above most useful answer in the whole thread for me, other solutions involving versioning and updates did not work for me.