Installing visual studio 6 on windows 10

Question

In Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 it was possible to install visual studio 6 by among others creating a dummy file ' msjava.dll ' in ' %windir% ' and possibly ' %windir%\\system32 ', so that the vs6 installation programme did not interrupt for installing the virtual machine for java .

This measure did not succeed for me at two pcs upgraded to windows 10 , one from windows 7 prof 64 bit and one from windows 8.1 home 64 bit .

Can anybody tell me how this might function in windows 10?

Answer 1

Running Visual C++ 6.0 on Windows 8.1, 8 and 10.

you have to follow those steps :

• download the SP6 pack : http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=9183
• uncompress the VS6sp61.cab package in a directory (with Winrar or
  7zip for example)

• copy files from the SP6 in the MSDEV directory (replace common files) in %Program Files%\\Microsoft Visual Studio\\Common\\MSDev98\\Bin\\ folder

  • Run msdevP.exe or msdevS.exe instead of the original msdev.exe

Source : http://www.softwareok.com/?seite=faq-Windows-8&faq=152

source 2 : http://blog.wavosaur.com/run-visual-c-6-on-windows-8/

Answer 2

I kept my old Win 95 and old Win XP pc's. Anytime I want to use VC++ 6.0, I fire up one of those and use it. Otherwise on Win 10-64bit I use "Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Express". It's really old and dated but works, np.