I have a VB6 desktop application that is deployed on well over 1200 desktops. The devices throughout are a mix of Windows XP SP2 and SP3 systems. All but one of these PCs (XP SP2) is able to successfully decipher the DOS 8.3 path (ie C:\PROGRA~1\DATFOL~1\Config\) that is used in an .ini file related to this application. This particular PC errors out with a message: “Run-time error ’76’: Path not found”.
The string is obtained from the .ini file using the
GetPrivateProfileString function. (The string is not hard-coded into the application – it is obtained from an ini file).
Since there is only one machine having the problem, I’m looking towards some configuration value on that device as being the root cause. I looked at the NtfsDisable8dot3NameCreation setting in the registry to see if this might cause the issue, but I have been unable to reproduce the problem on any other machine when changing this setting.
Anybody have any thoughts or perhaps another direction I could take?
If someone was gimping around and made a temp/backup/testing
\DataFolder_Temp, deleted the original then renamed, the short path would beDATAFOL~2.Delete the directory and recreate it.