welcome aboard,
I tried extensively to get that to work on vista, but failed at all attempts.
I not good at vb, and OTCE does not have vista or windows 7 to test on.
or at least didn't at that time.
I don't know for sure, but I think the error is a os permission violation error
Robert or one of our great plug-in builders here might be able to confirm
If your friend can get this to work, please share for this would be a great addition for our Hals