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Running VB6 Apps on Windows 7

I have some legacy VB6 applications that we need to use.
Currently everybody has to login to an old 2003 terminal server to run them but this I want them to be able to run direct from their PC.

Does anybody know how to get these running in Windows 7?

The error I get is attached.
I tried manually registering the OCX file too.
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found this (from http://visualbasic.ittoolbox.com/groups/technical-functional/visualbasic-l/vb6-dbgrid32ocx-how-to-display-data-under-windows-7-x64-5628985):

1) Copying the OCX into the windows\syswow64 folder
 2) Then typing in CMD in the search start panel
 3) Then clicking the CMD in the listing with the right click - select run as Administrator
 4) When the black screen appears
 5) C:\Windows\SysWow64
 6) RegSrv32.exe control.ocx
 7) Exit
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Tried that but it fails to register
Can you please download the dependency Walker tool from link below and try opening the ocx in this tool? It shall show if any dependencies of this ocx is missing or not registered?
http://www.dependencywalker.com
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