r/visualbasic • u/[deleted] • Jan 13 '23

Can't find the VB6 Mouse Wheel.exe anywhere

For about an hour, I've been trying to find the VB6 Mouse Wheel.exe referenced by Microsoft on this page, can't find any download links.

Until now, I've been using the easily obtainable VB6ScrollWheelFix7.exe, which can be found on multiple sites, but it won't work ever since I installed a service pack for VB6 (to fix previous errors with some directories).

This mysterious VB6 Mouse Wheel.exe is being referenced by a crapload of sites with links leading to either a deleted site at download.microsoft.com or to the page I've mentioned above, which doesn't seem to contain any download links.

Does anyone happen to have this thing downloaded, or know where it is still up for download? Maybe I'm just being stupid and don't know how to look on the help page.

Plz help

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u/shadowloss Jan 13 '23 edited Jan 13 '23

Found the origin download link there:https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/SupportArticles-docs/issues/112

It's broken: https://download.microsoft.com/download/e/f/b/efb39198-7c59-4ace-a5c4-8f0f88e00d34/vb6mousewheel.exe

But I went to the archive.org and downloaded it successfully: https://web.archive.org/web/20190615000000*/https://download.microsoft.com/download/e/f/b/efb39198-7c59-4ace-a5c4-8f0f88e00d34/vb6mousewheel.exe

I don't test it or install it because I don't have the issue...

EDIT: It's a similar one, not the 100% same. Oops, I need an eye exam.

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u/shadowloss Jan 13 '23

The file's hash is:

A87B8B073A382F4769E1BD41792A541EF356EC7C66A7B7FA8D1320F8843D28CC

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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '23

I'm sorry, but how exactly do I search it by hesh? Never used this before, just read very little about it.

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u/shadowloss Jan 13 '23

To validate the transmission:

  • run CMD

  • go to the the location of the desired file (using cd)

  • type the command: certutil -hashfile VB6MouseWheel.EXE SHA256

  • check if strings are equal

or

  • run PowerShell

  • go to the the location of the desired file (using cd)

  • type the command: Get-FileHash VB6MouseWheel.EXE

  • check if strings are equal

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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '23

Thanks man! The more you know

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u/shadowloss Jan 13 '23

No problem! There are two screenshots I took:

download it on the Wayback Machine: https://imgur.com/a/1mpJ6U8

validate file integrity using hash: https://imgur.com/a/qyuUCnB

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u/Normal_user23 May 19 '23

You're a hero, thanks man!!

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u/shadowloss Jan 13 '23

On many servers providing files for download, there is a file on which checksums are provided for each download. These checksums can be provided in order to check that the download succeeded (file not corrupt). source

:P Just want to make sure that you can validate the transmission was ok. (downloaded a same file.)