COMCTL Common Controls Progressbar displays ugly blue bars

Question

I have a VB6 program which uses comctrl32.ocx to display a progress bar. I've also had programs using mscomctl.ocx. However, it is displaying it using the ugly, old-style blue boxes progress bar instead of using the new-style progressbar (which presumably varies depending on the OS). Other programs which reference that same ocx file display the new-style progressbar (unless I run them VB6, in which case they still use the ugly one). All of the properties of the control are the same. Any suggestions on what I'm doing wrong?

Answer 1

Most likely, your application doesn't have a manifest and therefore uses the old pre-Windows XP style common controls. vbAccelerator has a great article on how to add one