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SHDocVw.ShellWindows stopped working on Vista

I have the following code to enumerate running instance of IE 7(not sure if this works with IE6).


Sub TestGetRunningIE()
    Dim sws As SHDocVw.ShellWindows
    Dim ie As SHDocVw.InternetExplorer
    
    Set sws = New SHDocVw.ShellWindows
    For Each ie In sws
        Debug.Print ie.Name
    Next
End Sub

For the above code to work, need to make a reference to shdocvw.dll, see below for the location:
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When I moved this code in Vista SP1 Business it stopped working. Who would think that this is related to UAC :)... anyway just disable UAC and this code should work again. Note that on one of my machines it is working with UAC on :(....

See this post to disable UAC. This is only one of the methods to disable User Account Control.
~ts

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Anonymous said…
Hi Iam Prabhu from chennai,joined today in this forum... :)
Thanks for dropping by.

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