Installing Visual Studio 6.0 Enterprise on XP

[Lars-Erik Østerud]

I have a Visual Studio 6.0 Enterprise CD that I should install on a XP
Pro SP2 computer. But the SETUP.EXE chrashes when I try to run it :-(

I can't upgrade VB to SP5 either until I have installed it first :-(

I works on XP (have it installed on another XP Pro SP2 with SP5).

Anyone have any idea why the SETUP.EXE on the CD chrashes with XP SP2

 

[Dave Patrick]

Try asking them here.

http://www.microsoft.com/communitie...611-ba64-4ac8-bdb1-0084368a7f58&lang=en&cr=US

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[David Candy]

Ask a programmer to look at it and find out.

 

[Lars-Erik Østerud]

David Candy skrev:

Ask a programmer to look at it and find out.

I have it installed on XP on one work computer.
But the setup crashes on the other XP computer.

(see on the net discussion groups that I'm not the
only one having this problem, but no solutions...)

 

[David Candy]

Ask a programmer. You obviously aren't.

 

[Lars-Erik Østerud]

David Candy skrev:

Ask a programmer. You obviously aren't.

What's the logic of that? I've been a programmer for over 10 years
(oficcaly, close to 25 in real life This is an installation issue
with VB 6.0 Enterprise, not a VB programming issue (ok, I'll admit I
do most programming in Delphi, but I have used VB 6.0 a lot too...)

I know it's made way before XP, and I have used all tips on the net
for making sure the 16-bit part of XP work (autoexec.nt and so on)

But since the SETUP.EXE (the SetupWizard) hard crashes, and the
ACMBOOT.EXE (that installs VB 6.0) then stops after a while because
some components needed are not found (stating that I should run the
SetupWizard first I a bit stuck. So why don't give some hints.

I have it installed on another XP SP2 computer (and upgrading that to
newer SP for Visual Studio worked), but it was installed on that
computer when it was running 98SE or XP (no service pack) so the
installation issue may be due to something in XP or XP SP2.

But if someone have had this problem and solved it, please telle me
(btw: this is a legal license for use at my work, no messing about)

 

[David Candy]

So you encourage your customers to ring you up and say your program doesn't work (and that all they say). Or if they do, do you say, stupid bloody user.

 

[frodo]

try looking here

http://search.support.microsoft.com...=1&ast=1&ast=2&ast=3&mode=a&spid=3042&x=0&y=0

this install _IS_ finicky, temporarily disable as much unneccessary stuff,
especially AV and anti-spyware, as possible before trying the install.
Java issues are the most prevalent. If the latest MS Java is on your
machine already it usually succeeds w/o error.

Be sure to reboot and then install SP6 for it too.

 

[frodo]

oh yeah, don't feed the trolls...

 

[Lars-Erik Østerud]

David Candy:

So you encourage your customers to ring you up and say your program doesn't work (and that all they say). Or if they do, do you say, stupid bloody user.

Huuuu? If my user call me anout a problem, I debug my code of course
(if we can't find any other reason). My VB 6.0 is hardly my program,
so I can't very well know why it won't install. It doesn't give much
of a hint either besides "setup has encountered a problem and needs to
close." and the neither the Microsoft knowledge base NOR articles on
the net gives any more info (apart from other having the same problem)

And Microsoft doesn't give free support (even when their product
doesn't work) so I don't really have any other option than asking
hoping someone else had the same problem and found out what's wrong.

(didn't quite catch the "(and that all they say)" point, as I have
given the info I have, if you need more info to help, plase ask

 

[David Candy]

ntsd d:\setup
may give hints.

It was a piss poor problem description. And if you rang you, you wouldn't have anything to go on.

The only java I have is the VB6 java (which won't work till one updates it).

 

[Lars-Erik Østerud]

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http://search.support.microsoft.com...=1&ast=1&ast=2&ast=3&mode=a&spid=3042&x=0&y=0

Thank you very very very much!!!!. That did the trick! The article
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;192731 had the
answer it seems. I didn't have to do it all, took a change and did
just step 8 (as that seemed easy and since most performance counters
are disabled, the log file wasn't updated for a long time):

"8. If the error continues to occur, rename the file
\WINNT\System32\Perfc009.dat as Perfc009.xat."

Then the SETUP.EXE started without any crash (haven't clicked NEXT
yet, but at least I got a bit further now that the first time

BTW: Are there many fixes in VB6 SP6? I have SP5 on CD but not SP6

 

[Lars-Erik Østerud]

Lars-Erik Østerud:

"8. If the error continues to occur, rename the file
\WINNT\System32\Perfc009.dat as Perfc009.xat."

Then the SETUP.EXE started without any crash (haven't clicked NEXT
yet, but at least I got a bit further now that the first time

OK, so much for optimism I clicked NEXT and got another GPF :-(

This time in the module "ntdll.dll" (not in "vs60wiz.exe" as last).
(ok appname is still vs60wiz.exe, but modname is now ntdll.dll).

Guess I have to disable loading of all those "Performance" DLLs :-(
(hope that won't kill my system, MS says its OK to rename them

 

[Lars-Erik Østerud]

Lars-Erik Østerud:

OK, so much for optimism I clicked NEXT and got another GPF :-(

This time in the module "ntdll.dll" (not in "vs60wiz.exe" as last).
(ok appname is still vs60wiz.exe, but modname is now ntdll.dll).

Guess I have to disable loading of all those "Performance" DLLs :-(
(hope that won't kill my system, MS says its OK to rename them

Didn't help either. Tried copying the CD to the harddisk as well
(suggested on Dell PCs by one article). Still didn't help :-(

 

[Lars-Erik Østerud]

Lars-Erik Østerud:

Didn't help either. Tried copying the CD to the harddisk as well
(suggested on Dell PCs by one article). Still didn't help :-(

Not even in Safe Mode. Then I'm all blank. Anyone have more ideas?

 

[David Candy]

ntsd d:\setup

 

[=?Windows-1252?B?1L/UIE13cw==?=]

After you copy the CD to the harddisk, locate Setup.exe and change the
compatibility properties to Windows 95.

Morris

 

[Lars-Erik Østerud]

After you copy the CD to the harddisk, locate Setup.exe and change the

compatibility properties to Windows 95.

I tried that from the CD, didn't help. Do I need to this on other EXE
files as well. Is there anything else I can edit (some of the stuff
the Wizard tries to install is allreday on the system, is it possible
to comment out somthing from the install script files....)?

BTW: Tried running the ACMSETUP.EXE directly, and that does a system
check and starts the install, but then it says that some files are
missing and I need to run the SetupWizard (that's the one crashing).

Can any of the files need be added manually (w/o using SETUP.EXE)?

 

[Lars-Erik Østerud]

Ô¿Ô Mws:

After you copy the CD to the harddisk, locate Setup.exe and change the
compatibility properties to Windows 95.

Actually got it working now (after several hours trying

I copied all files to the harddisk. Then I edited SETUPWIZ.INI and
tried to comment out everything that I though I didn't need (qctually
almost all lines - ok, risky , and I removed the parts for server
installations as well (even removed the path to the EULA and README).
And then started SETUP.EXE again, and guess what. It worked (at least
1 of 3 times, but that's enough for me). And code seems to compile OK
as well (so far