I have my VB6 EXE project which runs perfectly when run in the VB IDE (WinXP Pro SP2). So I compiled it (made the exe) and when I run that it starts OK. However when I try to open a page that has a web browser, I get a runtime error 339 "Component 'SHDOCVW.DLL' or one its dependencies not correctly registered: a file is missing or invalid".

I have tried some things to get rid of this problem. First of all Internet Explorer works perfectly. I tried "regsvr32 c:\WINDOWS\system32\shdocvw.dll" which gave me success. However this didn't get rid of the problem. So I tried to reinstall IE but that didn't help either. I even tried to reinstall SP2 but the problem is still there. So I am beginning to think the problem is with my project and not the machine.

Help anyone? Unfortunately my machine is the only one I have access to so I can't take my thing to another machine.

Cheers.

Do you mean that does not work in the same machine it has been build?
Marco

Yes. It's on the same machine.

Try changing the permissions on the file.

I suspect that VB is using that file as y[u]ou</u> when debugging, but when compiled it uses the Internet Guest accout, IWAM_<server_name>.

If that account doesn’t have access to the file, it will appear to the browser (or whatever process is trying to access it) that it does not exist.