Hi,

It seems there is no way to install VS6. It happens that the setup.exe file crashes without any message window. This is what is trying to send to Microsoft:

AppName: setup.exe AppVer: 6.0.0.8167 ModName: setup.exe
ModVer: 6.0.0.8167 Offset: 000087f1

I did install the SDK 1.5 for TPC available in MS. I did not change anything.

Thank you for your help

I installed VS6 (Enterprise Edition) on my Toshiba M200. It's been a while,
but I don't recall any problems with the installation.

Are you installing from a retail VS6 CD or from the MSDN distribution?

-Peter

"Cristian" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:DFC84881-A719-448C-82E3-1A107281594A@microsoft.com...
> Hi,
>
> It seems there is no way to install VS6. It happens that the setup.exe
file crashes without any message window. This is what is trying to send to
Microsoft:
>
> AppName: setup.exe AppVer: 6.0.0.8167 ModName: setup.exe
> ModVer: 6.0.0.8167 Offset: 000087f1
>
> I did install the SDK 1.5 for TPC available in MS. I did not change
anything.
>
> Thank you for your help

"Cristian" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:DFC84881-A719-448C-82E3-1A107281594A@microsoft.com...
> Hi,
>
> It seems there is no way to install VS6. It happens that the setup.exe
file crashes without any message window. This is what is trying to send to
Microsoft:
>
> AppName: setup.exe AppVer: 6.0.0.8167 ModName: setup.exe
> ModVer: 6.0.0.8167 Offset: 000087f1
>
> I did install the SDK 1.5 for TPC available in MS. I did not change
anything.
>

I had the same problem on my Acer C302 tablet. After spending an entire
saturday with no luck, I finally found this:

<http://groups.google.it/groups?q=VS9...-8&oe=UTF-8&se
lm=eH1LVWNTDHA.2008%40TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl&rnum=1>

BTW, this helped me to solve the same issue with eMbedded Visual Tools 3 and
eMbedded Visual C++ 4.

HTH,


--
Giuseppe Govi
g.govi <a> vodafone.it

Grace tante, GG.

It is exactly what I was needing. Part of the message was:

"For the record, here's how I managed to install Visual Studio 6.0
Professional Edition + SP5 under XP SP1, with guidance from Microsoft
Product Support:

After loading the VS6 CD and exiting from the error dialog ("setup has
encountered a problem and needs to close"), I instead ran the following
command line to launch the ACMSETUP directly:

D:\SETUP\ACMSETUP.EXE /T VS98Pro.STF /S D:\ /n "" /o "" /k "PRODUCTKEYHERE"
/b 1

where my CD drive is D:, and I substituted my VS6 CD Key (without hyphen)
for PRODUCTKEYHERE (keeping the surrounding quotes). This launched the
Visual Studio 6 setup, but soon failed with the catch-22: "You must first
run the Installation Wizard before running this setup", so that attempt had
to be aborted.

The remedy for this second problem was to import a Microsoft-provided .REG
file (182 KB), which added a bunch of entries under the registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio \6.0. After running this
registry update (i.e. by double-clicking on the .REG file), I was able to
repeat the preceding ACMESETUP command line and successfully perform a full
installation of VS6. There were no further complications when I then
applied the SP5 upgrade."

I also thank Michael Asherman (mda@ideaxchg.com) for this detailed posting.

So I only need the file. Do you think I could get the .reg file here? I have no easy way to get the needed information from another registry.

Maybe someone from MS can help?

Have a nice day,

Cristian