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Installing Visual Basic 6.0 Professional on Windows 7

Posted by Psycho Programer On Saturday, December 4, 2010 1 comments

  1. Open Folder Containing Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Professional

Folder

2. Find and Click Setup.exe

Click Setup.exe

3. A Program Compatibility Assistant  may appear as shown in figure below. Check Don’t show this message again and then click Run program

Program Compatibility Assitant

4. Click Next on Installation Wizard for Visual Basic 6.0 Professional Edition

Installation Wizard

5. A Program Compatibility Assistant  may appear again as shown in figure below. Check Don’t show this message again and then click Run program

PCA

6. Now, the Visual Basic 6.0 Professional Setup will start as shown in Figure. Click Continue and then Ok

VB Setup

7. Wait until the setup is complete

Loading

8. Restart Windows after the setup is complete

Restart

9. After Restarting your computer, find folder named Microsoft Visual Studio inside C:\Program Files

ProgramFiles

10. Open folder and find VB6 inside VB98 folder

VB6

11. Right Click on VB6 and click Troubleshoot compatibility

Troubleshoot

12. Click Troubleshoot program and then Click Next. Make sure that This program worked in earlier version of Windows but wont install or run now is checked

Troubleshoot Program

13. Select Windows 2000 from Which version of Windows  did this program work on before? list

Win2000

14. Click Start the program

Start

15. Now Click Yes, save these settings for this program and then Close the troubleshooter

Yes

16. Now open the program from C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VB98\VB6  it will run smoothly

Done

1 comments:

Soviet Man Ligal said...

great.....\m/ very useful for the users facing compatibility issues......

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