However, we are releasing this non-security related package because it contains improvements that were ready for release just prior to the end of Mainstream Support.
Mainstream Support for Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 ended on March 31, 2005. Customers who are not licensees of Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 nor Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 but are using older versions of the two Common Controls.Customers who are Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 and/or Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 licensees.This package is provided under the terms of the End User License Agreement and is intended for the following customers: This package will not install these Common Controls if they do not already exist on the target system.
This package updates two Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Common Controls: mscomctl.ocx and comctl32.ocx to address the issues described in the KB articles noted in the Related Resources section on this page.