Visual C 6.0 For Windows 7
Welcome to Seven Forums hankydorky. Everything I can find says Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 is not compatible with Windows 7. Since you have Ultimate, you can try it in. How to install Visual Studio 6 on Windows 7. How to install Visual Studio 6 on Windows 7. From start>all programs>Visuall Studio 6.0 > Microsoft Visual C++.
To achieve what you want you need proceed with the following instructions: 1) navigate to the installation directory of your VC6 installation 2) open the /Common/MSDev98/Bin/ folder. 3) Right click on MSDEV.exe and select 'properties'. For installation on Windows 8 it is important to uncheck Data Access - Change Options - ADO, RDS and OLE DB Providers.
For more info see the comments to this post: Visual Studio Installation 1. Ensure UAC has been turned off. Ensure your user has administrative rights on the computer.
Run the Setup.exe file in the Visual Studio Installer. “Run the program without getting help” when the error “This program has compatibility issues”. Click Next, Accept the Agreement and click Next.
Enter your software key, name and company name. Update Microsoft Virtual Machine for Java. “Run the program without getting help” when the error “This program has compatibility issues”.
Note message shown twice. Say “Yes” to reboot the system. On start up the setup continues to run.
“Run the program without getting help” 12. Start Page shown.
Click on Desktop. “Run the program without getting help” 14. Visual Studio 6.0 Enterprise Edition shown with options “Custom, Products or Server Application”. At this point click “Exit” on the installer and confirm with “Yes” otherwise an error will be shown if you continue.
Run the Setup.exe file in the Visual Studio Installer. “Run the program without getting help” 18. Click Next and Accept the Agreement and click Next 19.
Enter your software key, name and company name. Select Custom and click Next 21. Installation folder click next 22. “Run the program without getting help” 23. Click “Continue”. Product ID click “Ok” 25.
Tools - Change Options - OLE/Com Object Viewer, Uncheck and click OK. Enterprise Tools - Change Options - Visual Studio Analyzer, Uncheck and click OK. Data Access - Change Options - ADO, RDS and OLE DB Providers, Uncheck. At this point it warns saying the component is essential. Click OK and OK again.
Click continue. Say Yes to register environment variables. Say Yes to VSS DB format.
Install box with “Destination File:” should appear. Setup is updating your system message box should appear. Click OK to Windows NT Debug Symbols. Click Restart Windows. On start up the setup continues to run and loads APEMREG.exe. Install using compatibly settings.
“Run the program without getting help” 39. Untick install MSDN. Click Next and yes to confirm. Select Nothing and click Next.
Select Nothing and click next. Untick Register and click finish. SP6 Installation 1.
Visual C++ 6.0 Runtime
Run setupsp6.exe 2. Click Continue. Click I Agree.
Setup Successful click OK. I figured that I would post an update to this since I was having difficulty installing Visual Studio 6.0 even while following the previous steps. Here are the steps I took to install Visual Studio 6.0 onto my Win7 Pro 32bit system. You should take care to follow these steps exactly and not deviate.
The failed installs are due to the outdated DLL files that fail to register. These procedures will help avoid them. Step 1: Copy the files to a hard drive. When copying the second CD, copy them into the same folder as you did CD 1. This will give you a full install setup. Step 2: Go into each of the folders and set comparability mode for all the.exe files to Windows 98. Also check the disable desktop composition and display scaling on high DPI settings.
Step 3: Run the install program. Step 4: Select Custom Installation Step 5: Uncheck 98DCom Step 6: Uncheck every option except Visual Basic. Driver tsstcorp cddvdw ts-l633a ata device. Ignore any caution messages. As much as people may hate VB, this is the one time VB is your friend.
Visual C++ 6.0
The object of this is to get a successful install. Step 6: Once you have a successful install, run the Programs and Features program from the control panel. Step 7: Select the Visual Basic 6.0 program in the list and click the modify/uninstall button. Step 8: Check only the Visual C option to add Visual C. Step 9: Run the Visual Studio 6.0 Service Pack 6 program. This should fix the open file crash. Step 10: Enjoy using Visual Studio 6.0 on Windows 7.
Visual C++ 6.0
Scott Tovey Update: The VB6 Service Pack 6 prevents the open file crash but you must run Visual C as Administrator.