XPost: alt.comp.lang.visualbasic   
   From: nospam@nospam.nl   
      
   Thanks for the answers.   
      
   FileMon is pretty handy. Good tip. Also, it turns out that if you simply   
   drag the exe file to notepad, the strings show up. But only with a 'space'   
   char between each of them. Don't know if this trick always works.   
      
      
      
      
   "J French"  wrote in message   
   news:44152031.82424423@news.btopenworld.com...   
   > On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 08:05:56 +0100, "qwert"  wrote:   
   >   
   > >Hello,   
   > >   
   > >I have an application (.exe) build in Visual Basic 6. The code (and   
   > >programmer) are gone. The program doesn't work because it looks for a ms   
   > >access file (.mdb) in an unknown directory. I need to figure out which   
   > >directory this is. Is there anyway to do this? The direcory is probably   
   > >hard-coded in the .exe, so could it be still in there as a string? Open   
   the   
   > >.exe with some tool and look for strings? Or is there a way to step   
   through   
   > >a running vb application?   
   >   
   > I use a very old and honky File Viewer/Editor   
   >   
   > www.jerryfrench.co.uk/fd.zip   
   >   
   > That would be my first line of attack   
   >   
   > The next line would be to try FileMon :-   
   >   
   > http://www.sysinternals.com   
   >   
   > >This probably isn't a vb6 question, but that is what I work with and that   
   is   
   > >what this application is build with and I have no idea how to accomplish   
   > >such a task, or if it's even possible. So any help would great,   
   >   
   >   
      
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