Installing VB6 on Win7 64 bit
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From: Karl E. Peterson on 26 Jul 2010 14:02 Brian E McNamee submitted this idea : > My 64 bit installaion problem! My VB6 is an upgrade CD. For it I need to > install VB4. And! My VB4 is an upgrade so I need to install VB3. Guess > what. VB3 won't install. Any ideas? Given you have a license, I'd suggest you'd be living within the spirit of that license were you to obtain bits that didn't require the previous installs present. Familiar with bittorrents? > Would VB2010 solve this? Heh, no. -- ..NET: It's About Trust! http://vfred.mvps.org
From: Brian E McNamee on 27 Jul 2010 16:50 Ralph, MikeD, and Karl, Thanks for your responses. I have VB6 up and running on 2 XP boxes. I'll try to thread my way through your suggestions and build a plan. Brian McNamee "Karl E. Peterson" wrote: > Brian E McNamee submitted this idea : > > My 64 bit installaion problem! My VB6 is an upgrade CD. For it I need to > > install VB4. And! My VB4 is an upgrade so I need to install VB3. Guess > > what. VB3 won't install. Any ideas? > > Given you have a license, I'd suggest you'd be living within the spirit > of that license were you to obtain bits that didn't require the > previous installs present. Familiar with bittorrents? > > > Would VB2010 solve this? > > Heh, no. > > -- > ..NET: It's About Trust! > http://vfred.mvps.org > > > . >
From: MikeD on 27 Jul 2010 17:38 "Brian E McNamee" <BrianEMcNamee(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:13E462C8-14B7-474E-A61D-4760BB64BF10(a)microsoft.com... > Karl, > > Yep, my licenses are legitimate. But I don't know anything about > bittorrents. Any suggestions? Sounds like there's a way to just set the > switch "ON". > > A long time ago, on computers long, long forgotten I was a heavy Ops > System > designer/maintainer/fixer. Some "boxes" ran as many as 10,000+ users and > all > levels of security "colored books". But I'm too lazy to to scour the > world > to develop the same level of knowledge about the no longer very small box > that now raises hackles at me when I turn it on just to run the stuff I've > been using for 10 years! > > But I would like to get some of my programs that have 1,000s of hours of > development to run! And be able to maintain them (damn stock market > reports > change format all the time!). Kinda sounds like Virtual PC (or other similar product) might be just the thing you need. -- Mike
From: ralph on 27 Jul 2010 18:11 On Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:50:38 -0700, Brian E McNamee <BrianEMcNamee(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > ... But I'm too lazy to to scour the world >to develop the same level of knowledge about the no longer very small box >that now raises hackles at me when I turn it on just to run the stuff I've >been using for 10 years! > >But I would like to get some of my programs that have 1,000s of hours of >development to run! And be able to maintain them (damn stock market reports >change format all the time!). > I can feel your pain. I finally dumped my beloved Windows 2000 for a Vista box and a Win7-64bit box, and I too have a ton of legacy stuff I still want to play with. Some installed in their new environments without incident (which was always interesting in itself), others were a nightmare. What helped me (mostly cuz I'm rather right-brained) was taking a large poster and actually mapping out "logical" folders vs "physical" folders as well as "WoW"s, permissions, etc. This was useful because I discovered most problems were not caused by missing or non-supported components, but not having items/settings where the O/S expects them to be. Once, you get that sorted out you can manually copy/configure/register anything to run. hth -ralph
From: Mike Williams on 27 Jul 2010 18:24
"Brian E McNamee" <BrianEMcNamee(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:13E462C8-14B7-474E-A61D-4760BB64BF10(a)microsoft.com... > Yep, my licenses are legitimate. Well that obviously doesn't hold any sway with Micro$oft, because they have stitched you up after taking your money regardless of whether your licences are legitimate or not. Treat them in the same way they have treated you, and be dishonest with them in the same way that they have been dishonest with you. Just 'borrow' a full version of Visual Basic (as opposed to an upgrade version) and install it. Mike |