The VB5 Runtimes are Dynamic Link Library (DLL) files from Microsoft® which are required to run programs written in Visual Basic 5, a popular Windows programming language. Several of Compuquest, Inc's software products are written in part using Visual Basic 5, as are many other common programs today, and these files are required for all of them. The file available from the link below contains, in most cases, the latest versions available of these DLL's, and they are fully backwards compatible... that is, any program which works with an earlier version, will work with these updated ones as well. The updates simply give the programmer more advanced features to use in designing his program.
The state-of-the-art development teams at Compuquest utilize these advanced features to bring you highly functional software with the latest features. Therefore, our software requires these latest VB 5 runtime files, and it may not operate properly with the previous versions of these DLL's.
These VB runtime files from Microsoft are freely distributable and you can easily obtain them without charge. If you do not have these runtime files, they should be installed before installing new software that uses them. If you wish to download just the Visual Basic 5 Runtime files to update your system first, they are available here - just follow these simple instructions.
Once the Runtime Installer File has been downloaded, just doubleclick on the vb500a.exe file and it will install itself. This installation may prompt you to reboot as it finshes in order to update the system files.
This installation will install or update the following DLL's in c:\windows\system.
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MSVBVM50.DLL
OLEAUT32.DLL
OLEPRO32.DLL
STDOLE2.TLB
ASYCFILT.DLL
COMCAT.DLL
CTL3D32.DLL (w95)
CTL3D32.DLL (wNT)
COMDLG32.OCX
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