To Oliver: Your problem is that you are using mouse software. Do not use any mouse software, unless of course you are a gamer and need all functionality of your mouse, in this case you are better off coding in XP.
Do not install any mouse software, if so, uninstall it. Make sure that your operating system is using ONLY system mouse driver. Do not run the zip file. The above works fine for me on Vista and my new Operating system Windows 7. If it does not work for you, then you are doing something wrong. But now my Vista lost its wheel tilt capability on all horizontal scroll bars.
To Oliver: Because you are using the operating system drivers, the tilt wheel feature may not be supported by Vista. However, check Vista mouse configuration and see if it has the tilt wheel option, again it may not be supported.
As a programmer, you would rather develop programs that use the basic mouse functionality rather than a mouse that have tons of other buttons and features.
I use a LogicTech mouse with three buttons and wheel that does not have a tilt wheel option. If it is there, then you will have to proceed from Step 4 above. I see what you mean by extracting two-times. I tried and still no mouse wheel scrolling on IDE editor windows. I think there is something wrong with my Vista I am reluctant to spend any time and money on a legacy OS and 4 year-old PC.
Thanks a lot for your effort in helping me on this issue. You are right about Microsoft not having the tilt wheel option built into the system considering that Vista been around since The mouse tilt wheel option can come in handy for graphic and programmers of all types, but Microsoft only thinks about the average mouse user and not so much about us developers.
Some people would say why bother with Visual Basic, why not go the. NET way. Also note that I only provide advice and guidance via the forums - and not via private messages! January 15th, , PM 5. Re: VB6 Programs now requring compatibility mode in Windows January 22nd, , AM 6. Join Date Jan Posts But I think Microsoft will ensure the compatibility, cause, after all, almost everyone is on Window 10 now.
January 22nd, , PM 7. Re: VB6 Programs now requring compatibility mode in Windows 10 At some point folks are going to have to realize that they'll need to let VB6 go.
February 11th, , AM 8. Join Date Aug Posts Seems other apps are interrupting it. Norton, indexers, wifi I have trialed and errored it and found that the mcisendstring was not returning the video size I"ll fix that by issuing the same command along with a mini wait March 14th, , AM 9. Join Date Mar Posts 2. Re: VB6 Programs now requring compatibility mode in Windows 10 Yes, I've been encountering compatibility and app crash issues after upgrading from Win 7 to Win But considering VB6 to have been released 20 years ago we need to understand it and do what requires it to get it running on current platforms.
March 14th, , AM Re: VB6 Programs now requring compatibility mode in Windows 10 So far I have not had to use compatability mode on any of the software I have written. Very useful. God bless you. Good good good!!! This worked really well for me and I tried other things before. I suppose, the different results from following this guidance depends on the individual windows version. I stopped mine at due to the not understandable difference in behaviour when installing an old photoshop program 6.
With the version this braught me to a running VB6 on W Thanks a lot! Does anyone know how to stop Windows Updates from crashing my VB6 apps? Phil Please post your question with more details on stackoverflow! Java trick worked, but none of the other tricks. Had to run setup as administrator to get it to complete. Does not work for me. After updating the system prompt it throughs an error and the message display visual basic 6.
Followed instructions and have successfully installed VB6 on both a desktop and laptop computers without a hitch. Many thanks for your work. Thnx a lot : Tried to install with VS6installer, but can not complete the installation. STF with yours I finished the installations. Works well for me with Win 10 Ver. Thanks a lot for carefull and complete description — at one point the VB6 only installation differs from the presented VisualStudio6 — but no issue VisualStudio Analyser not present with VB6.
If anyone has succeeded, it would be interesting to know how they did it and the solutions to whatever problems occurred during the install.
Run the installer as Administrator, wait for the Win10 stability warning then select the run anyway. I had not then had occasion to work on legacy VB6 programs until recently.
When I tried to load a prior project I received an error message. After struggling to respond to the error message without success I eventually tried to uninstall VB6 and again use this method to reinstall.
I am running WIN10 version 20H2 and the reinstall was a success. I am now again able to edit legacy VB6 programs. Worked perfectly. Dug lots of site, wish I found this article before.
Thanks for this wonderful article, the issue is not fixed. Much appreciated. I had tried several times to VB6 installed and found some hints here and there but never got past the installer hangs. I have a customer who occasionally calls me to fix an ancient VB6 app that I wrote for them in — too cheap to pay for a.
This did the trick. The only thing I had to do in addition was to change some file permissions in the project folders and to recompile the VB6. Thanks again. This is very useful to under stands the problems which occurred across the installation of vb. Thanks my bro. Hello Hal, thanks so much for this.
It is the only article I was able to following and get a successful install. You rock! Now for a dumb question to anyone that might know…… Do I still need to run service pack 6 after this install? Or even better install in on a Hyper-V VM? This is awesome. For those who are complaining and moaning. Get a life. If the Earth is flat, do us a favour and jump off. There is nothing better than getting old software to work.
I do not like these new programming languages. It takes the fun and romance out of it. But… what if you need ADO or another data method? A program without data access is not useful. Have you suggested installing Access runtime? Plenty of other comments here are happy and appreciate the article and accept the drawbacks. No-one should realistically expect a 22 year old piece of complicated software to run perfectly in Windows I tested this installation and my database program transacting with mssql works perfectly … so what are you talking about.???
VB6 is useful for making front ends. The problem is that ADO is proprietary and no longer used except in legacy Microsoft specific applications. Thank you so much. This is very helpful file and process is very well defined for installation. Thanks Again. I have several old projects that written in VB6, so I was really wanting to still have access to them. I recently upgraded to Windows 10 — 64 bit, and also very recently had to re-format my hard drive.
I have paralell latest version of this product in. Net but dont want to scrap my loyal financial ERP developed in year I do run it on window 10 but this article gives instructions how get it trouble free. I have loaded VB6 with no difficulties.
Runs, compiles and compiled programs run without problems. Any Advice? After a few months of studying the issue and trying different things, I decided to install a XP Pro virtual machine using VMWare, but I suspect the free Oracle version will work as well, just not enough support. It works well. Did everything as instructed and VB6 installed but will not run because I do not have appropriate permissions.
Set all permissions to full but still not running. What do I need to do? I had just upgraded Windows over the years from 98 so never needed to reinstall VB6.
Thank you so much, this was really helpful. Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!! I do not even know how I ended up here, however I thought this submit was good. It gives me error message saying the. I can make an exe file but not the package. Can you help me? I wanted to take the time to say, thank you very much for this great article. I am able to open VB6 on server R2. Great post! We are linking to this particularly great content on our website. Keep up the good writing. Hi there, I desire to subscribe for this website to obtain most up-to-date updates, thus where can i do it please assist.
With these instructions, I was able to successfully install VB6 on a Windows Server 64 bit machine and debug code. I just have one question…. In the windows error report I get Exception code; 0xef4d. I searched for that exception, but didn't see anything related to my problem. I can run a different. The xp machine does have vb6 installed on it, could that be an issue? What reasons and solutions for this problem? Thanks in advance, Nik. Follow Post Reply.
Brian Gideon. Thanks in advance, Nik So we know that at least one executable compiled on the Vista machine works on XP right? That tells me that the. Is the problem executable using any unmanaged code? That might be part of the problem. Can you be more specific about the error you're getting? What makes you think 0xef4d is an error code?
It looks like it coulde be a memory address as well. Family Tree Mike. It could be almost anything at this point, except for the vb6 being on the machine.
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