Installing VB6 in Windows 11 - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: daveyk
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: January 11, 2022, 11:07:02 pm
content: I have no problems installing VB6 in Windows 10, but the install program does not get very far in Windows 11.Very early in the process, I get the following error: Visual Studio 6.0 Professional Setup was not completed sucessfully.It could have to do with security permissions in Windows 11, which as the admin, I find a real pain in the ass.Thought, experience please.

author: daveyk
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: January 11, 2022, 11:08:52 pm
content: Stupid Windows 11 will not let you change the permissions of c:\program Files (x86), to the Administrator.Frustrating...

author: JPortici
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 12, 2022, 09:55:22 am
content: Question: Do applications made in VB6 run?If they don't 2022 will be a complete nightmare

author: daveyk
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: January 12, 2022, 02:49:24 pm
content: "The Visual Basic 6.0 IDE is no longer supported as of April 8, 2008. "Yes, but it installed just fine in Windows 10. I can not get it to install in Windows 11. I might just revert this new PC back to Windows 10 (it was supposed to come with 11 but had 10 installed on it). HP spend three hours remote putting Windows 11 on it yesterday.

author: Peabody
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 12, 2022, 04:41:40 pm
content: Quote from: daveyk on January 11, 2022, 11:08:52 pmCould you explain more about this, or provide a link that explains it? Is it just the 32-bit stuff?

author: Mechatrommer
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 12, 2022, 04:59:43 pm
content: Quote from: JPortici on January 12, 2022, 09:55:22 amnot really yet. we still have Win7-10 thats still have life in them... last time about a year ago, i have to bid farewell to my WinXP, not because i have problem with WinXP directly, but with more and more modern SWs that cant run properly in it. so i dig into Win7 64bit now, add some used RAM from 3GB before to 8GB now, replaced the PC casing and my 13yrs old PC is like new again... all important modern SWs (mostly for the HWs i bought such as 3d msla printer) now can all run properly, along with all my old VB6 IDE and diy apps. all this WinXP->7 transition is possible because of one crucial thing... i found better replacement to Windows Explorer XP from suggestion in this forum, ie XYPlorer. because Explorer is my #1 app that i cant live without. all Win Vista's,8-10's (including this 7's) Explorers are nightmares. and XYPlorer is built from VB6 too!ps: and i still got Win7 update notifications from M$ until today, so they are still supporting it, looking at this roadmap, i believe my VB6 will still have a long way to go up to Win10, and i believe i can die gracefully with my VB6 CD's on my chest when the time comes

author: SiliconWizard
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 12, 2022, 07:15:47 pm
content: Quote from: Peabody on January 12, 2022, 04:41:40 pmNot that I'm very interested in Windows 11 so far, but I'd be curious about this point as well. Could it be just a change that would prevent an application (here, the installer) from asking the user for elevated rights (with a confirmation dialog), as Windows did before? If that is so, I wouldn't find the change that stupid. So maybe the "fix" here would be to run the installer as administrator? (Not that it's very pretty, but if that works...) And if it doesn't fix the issue, then I probably have not gotten what the problem was. So some more details would help.

author: bobcat2000
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: January 13, 2022, 01:08:32 am
content: Just a guess. Can you make a new folder and install VB6 to that new folder? Windows now enforces the file protection to the files in the Program Files and Windows folder. Many older apps don't follow the Windows programming standard and save files to these folders. That is why they don't work anymore.

author: BeBuLamar
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 22, 2022, 04:29:10 pm
content: I didn't know that you can install VB6 in windows 10. I tried to install to a PC with windows 7 and it didn't work. I would try on Windows 10 and see.

author: SL4P
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 22, 2022, 09:22:38 pm
content: A couple of years ago, I wanted to resurrect a large VB6 project (just to examine something)…Win10 was very unfriendly, but I raised a Win7 VM, and it came up just like new.

author: JPortici
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 23, 2022, 06:24:42 am
content: Quote from: Mechatrommer on January 12, 2022, 04:59:43 pmVB6 IDE runs so much better in WIN10 than in WIN7. Was less pain to install, too.

author: coromonadalix
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 25, 2022, 02:30:33 am
content: have you tried some compatibility modes for the installation ??

author: Melt-O-Tronic
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: April 25, 2022, 06:26:42 am
content: I don't use Windows 11 (and never will), but my solution was to install it on XP in a VirtualBox VM. Works great for reverse engineering old source code.

author: Mechatrommer
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 27, 2022, 11:58:56 am
content: some guidance if the installer cant install or stucked...https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/1191047/Install-Visual-Studio-on-Windows

author: mariush
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 27, 2022, 12:11:13 pm
content: There's a third party project that creates an installer using the original files from Visual Studio 6 discs for Visual Basic which is compatible on Windows 7 and 10 , but I didn't check personally if it runs on Windows 11.I'm at work and don't remember right now the link for the project or what it was called, but I'm writing so I'll remember when I'm home to check and edit this post with the info.

author: voltsandjolts
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: July 27, 2022, 12:23:18 pm
content: This thread made me wonder how popular is VB6really, in 2022?I popped over to the VB Forum and at that random time over 300 people were on theVB6 board!OK, still popular, understood!

author: Mechatrommer
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 27, 2022, 12:26:54 pm
content: Quote from: voltsandjolts on July 27, 2022, 12:23:18 pmif you get used to VB6, you wont touch any of those modern nonsense, i've tried, even the latest Ms Visual Studio package. esp like me who have few codes and libraries that i will hate to port... if not, then be happy with your python.

author: bd139
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 27, 2022, 12:38:22 pm
content: I still have VB6 stuff in production. Fortunately it's behind layers of COM and service calls written in something elseIt's slowly being replaced with C#

author: mariush
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 28, 2022, 01:45:56 pm
content: Ok, just remembered about this thread.The attached New_Visual is an archive with inno setup installer scripts (templates, or instructions for inno setup to create an installer)from the readme inside the archiveQuoteI did it like this ... mounted the Visual Studio 6 CD 1, copied the contents in a temporary folder, copied the VB6-VS6-generic.iss in same folder, loaded it in Inno Setup and compiled the installer. It generated a 33 MB installer with only VB6The vb6mousewheelfix attachment adds scroll support in the VB6 GUI.There's an "extended runtime" or "vb6 sp6 security rollup update" here (VB60SP6-KB2708437-x86-ENU.msi) :https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30505QuoteLink goes tohttps://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/description-of-the-cumulative-update-rollup-for-the-visual-basic-6-0-service-pack-6-runtime-extended-files-e02acc79-217b-fc0a-6edc-540403af2081Oh ... and you'll want to download VSSP6, can't attach it cause it's 60.8 MB.. if you don't have it I can upload it on Google Drive.Supposedly this is Visual Basic 6 SP6 only, around 20 MB, but can't guarantee it, didn't test it :https://web.archive.org/web/20200812041814/http://download.microsoft.com/download/f/0/3/f03c202d-1ce4-4267-9393-a8a4b400a982/Vs6sp6B.exeIt's probably the right file, you can search for that GUID and it's referenced everywhere.