

Basically the VB6 setup checks if the file Virtual Machine for Java already exists on the system so the installerĪutomatically skips this step. The solution is to trick the VB6 setup into thinking that the Microsoft The problem is, the VB6 setup does not allow you to continue with the installation if you untick the "Update Microsoft Virtual Machine for Java" checkbox as it grays out the Next button. I didn't do this but then my install didn'tĪ computer should always maintain the latest version of Java and is pointless to have the discontinued Microsoft Virtual Machine for Java on the computer just to install Visual Basic 6. On the registry key: HKCR\RDSServer.DataFactory\Clsidĭonovan Brown reckons you should also disable IE Enhanced SecurityĬonfiguration. You must also grant full access to the Admin user (used to install the VB6) To avoid the install freezing in the "Setup is updating your system" step,

Turn off UAC and grant full access to the Admin user I link to the important ones at the bottom. There are quite a lot of pages out there which gives parts of the story.

Microsoft Visual Basic 6.How to install Visual Basic 6 on Windows 10 Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Enterprise (ISO) Product type DevTool Vendor Microsoft Release date 1998 End of life date 2008 Minimum CPU 486DX/66-MHz Minimum RAM 16MB Minimum free disk space 76MB User interface GUI Platform Windows Download count 598 (501 for release) Downloads Download name After version 6, Visual Basic was replaced by Visual Basic. Visual Basic 3 was the most popular version under 16-bit Windows 3.1, while Visual Basic 6 was the most popular for 32-bit Windows 95/NT and later. Visual Basic easily interfaced with many database products (most notably Microsoft Access) and reporting tools (most notably Crystal Reports) These however, limited application development to Microsoft Windows. The language itself was an interpreted BASIC dialect, however speed was maintained through the use of reusable compiled libraries (DLLs and VBX controls).

Visual Basic was extremely popular for business application programming. In contrast, even the smallest Visual Basic basic programs could take reams of program code to write in C or C++. First released in 1991, Microsoft Visual Basic was a programming environment where one could build an application by visually creating the user interface first, and then adding code.
