KB148740 - You receive an Invalid Page Fault in Kernel32.dll error in Visual Basic 4.0

Article ID: 148740

Article Last Modified on 1/4/2006

Microsoft Visual Basic 4.0 16-bit Enterprise Edition
Microsoft Visual Basic 4.0 32-Bit Enterprise Edition

This article was previously published under Q148740

SYMPTOMS

Support for the following product versions has been discontinued. For more information about product retirement, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle

Refer the customer to online resources such as the Microsoft Knowledge Base, Frequently Asked Questions, and Newsgroups at the following Microsoft Web site:

http://support.microsoft.com

When printing a code module containing a combination of single and double byte, the following error displays:

VB32 caused an Invalid Page Fault in module: Kernel32.dll at address:
0137:bff7

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be an issue in the Microsoft product listed at the beginning of this article. This issue was fixed in an updated version of Vba232.dll after Visual Basic 4.0 for East Asian languages was released.

MORE INFORMATION

The latest release of Vba232.dll (version 2.00.6108) is Vba232a.exe.

The following file is available for download from the Microsoft Download Center:

Vba232a.exe

The Vba232a.exe file contains the following files:

   Vba232.dll   Version: 2.0.6108   Size:  1025 KB   Date: 3/08/96

                The Visual Basic for Applications Development Environment

   Readme.txt   The installation instructions for Vba232.dll

For additional information about how to download Microsoft Support files, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

119591 How to Obtain Microsoft Support Files from Online Services

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Installation of Vba232.dll

After downloading Vba232a.exe, execute it in an empty directory to obtain the files it contains. Then copy the following file to the following location on top of the existing file by the same name. (This assumes that you have installed Microsoft Windows in the C:\WINDOWS directory.) For example:

VBA232.DLL -> C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\VBA232.DLL

-or-

if you are using Microsoft Windows NT, copy the file into the SYSTEM32 directory: (This assumes that you have installed Microsoft Windows NT in the C:\NT35 directory.)

VBA232.DLL -> C:\NT35\SYSTEM32\VBA232.DLL

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