PRB: Error Connecting to MS Query with UserConnection Designer

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Steps to Reproduce

1. Launch Regedit.exe (click Run on the Start menu, choose REGEDIT, and click OK).
2. Go to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Shared Tools\VBQuery key.
3. This key has two data values. Edit the "Path" value to make it invalid (for example, change the name of Msqry32.exe to Msqry3.exe).
4. Start Visual Basic and select a standard EXE.
5. Click Add ActiveX Designer on the Project menu, and select "Microsoft UserConnection."
6. When the UserConnection property page appears, select "User DNS-Less Connection String."
7. Under "ODBC Driver," select "Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb)" and click OK.
8. Under the UserConnections form, right-click UserConnection1 and select "Insert Query."
9. When the ODBC Microsoft Access 97 Setup dialog box appears, click OK.
10. When the Select Database dialog box appears, choose the "NWIND.MDB" database, and click OK.
11. When the Query1 dialog box appears, click the "Based On User-Defined SQL" option.
12. Type in the SQL statement "Select * from customers" in the text box, then click the "Build" button.
    
    Visual Basic will hang for a few seconds, one of the following will happen:
    
    
    • You will receive the following message:
      There was a problem attempting to communicate with MS Query.
    • Your SQL statement will be erased.
13. Edit the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Shared Tools\VBQuery key back to its original value.
14. Repeat steps 4-12, and MS Query will launch properly.