Brief guide that explains how to fix mouse wheel in Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 under Windows 8.1 x64 or Windows 10/11, which does not include mouse wheel support by default due to the IDE’s age.
- Download the VB6MouseWheel.exe self-extracting file and extract its contents to any folder and ignore instructions on that site because they don’t apply to x64 OS
- Copy VB6IDEMouseWheelAddin.dll to the Windows\SysWOW64 folder
- Discard all the other extracted files
- Open a command prompt as administrator in Windows\SysWOW64
- Type regsvr32.exe VB6IDEMouseWheelAddin.dll and press Enter
- You should see a message that the registration was successful:
- Start Visual Basic 6.0, go to Add-Ins > Add-In Manager
- Select MouseWheel Fix, check Loaded/Unloaded and Load on Startup checkboxes:
- Click OK. Now you can use the mouse wheel to scroll normally in VB 6.0.
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