Re: Fun and games instaling VB6 and MSDN!

Tech-Archive recommends: Fix windows errors by optimizing your registry

Alan -
Would it make any sense to start up with a virgin machine, or virgin OS
load?
I can understand if you have codebase in VB5 that you wish to hang on to,
but the VB5 dev environment ain't the same as the VB6 environment.
Reloading the OS ain't a trivial task - I don't suggest it unless you
really know what yer doing.

From VB5 to VB6 -
Lots of stuff changed
VS6EE installs a lot of stuff as well, it's almost worth it to do a full
disk
directory scan before and after, and compare the output files.

Here's my BFAI approach.
shell to cmd window
CD to c:\
issue 'dir *.* /s/e > list1.txt

rinse and repeat between installs, changing the name of file1 to file2, etc.
Then compare the files, use a file diff tool to quickly see the differences.

Also
If you've been using VB5 for some time ,
I'd suggest a registry cleanup prior to installing the VS6EE.

Good Luck - and really - my apologies that you've had so many problems.
EEEEEEEEEEEEEK

Regards [Bill]
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"Aalaan" <veryinvalid@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Well, more to report. It gets stranger and stranger.

Trying to download the MDAC 2.5 gave the message that I already had it!
Then
out of desperation I re-installed my Vb5. That fixed it! *But** I then
found that if for example I did a context F1 on set or Option, I then got
the box offering a choice of vb or vba. Here is the odd thing. If I
selected
vb I got all sorts of obscure stuff but if I chose vba I got a sensible
explanation! (and not a vba specific one it seems (vba being but a subset
of
vb).

"Darhl Thomason" <darhlt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"swdev2" <wsanders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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OK - you'll have to downgrade a bit on the MDAC.
Use MDAC 2.4 or MDAC 2.5
From V2.6 forward, lots o stuff was removed.


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