title: Why does the VB6 IDE refuse to load valid add-ins?
body: <p>I've recently installed VB6+SP6 on a new Windows 10 PC and it seems to work fine in itself.</p>
  
  <p>But as I'm trying to get IDE add-ins working I'm running into this type of error:</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/iFI1F.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/iFI1F.png" alt="...could not be loaded. Remove it from the list of available Add-Ins?"></a></p>
  
  <p>This particular example is from the Microsoft add-in at this link: <a href="https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/837910/mouse-wheel-events-do-not-work-in-the-visual-basic-6-0-ide" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/837910/mouse-wheel-events-do-not-work-in-the-visual-basic-6-0-ide</a></p>
  
  <p><em>but others are all doing the same thing.</em></p>
  
  <p>I've never seen this before - what is the cause?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks</p>
  
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  <p><strong>EDIT:</strong> MZTools 8 and VBAdvance have WORKED even though others have not; those both had their own installer which apparently does something right.</p>