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The 6.0 version of Microsoft Visual Basic is available as a free download on our software library. The latest installation package that can be downloaded is 3.1 MB in size. Microsoft Visual Basic is sometimes referred to as 'Visual Basic SP6 4', 'Visual Basic', 'Microsoft Visual Basic 2005'. The most popular versions among the software users are 10.0, 9.0 and 8.0. Our built-in antivirus checked this download and rated it as virus free. This free PC tool can work with the following extensions: '.pag', '.vbg' and '.vbp'. The actual developer of the free program is Microsoft.
This free PC program was developed to work on Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8 or Windows 10 and can function on 32 or 64-bit systems. Microsoft Visual Basic is categorized as Development Tools. The Microsoft Visual Basic installer is commonly called VB6.EXE, VB5.EXE, ZipExeStub.exe, VB62.EXE, VB60.EXE, vb5cce.exe, VB4TUTOR.Exe, Vb32.exe, VB.EXE, Uninst1.exe, TestEngine2.exe, ST6UNST.EXE, SSW76640EED1.exe, vb6run.exe or vbexpress.exe etc. Visual Studio is extensible by nature, ultimately consisting of a core 'shell' that implements all commands, windows, editors, project types, languages, and other features through dynamically loadable modules called 'packages'.1920 Microsoft encourages and fosters third party partners to create modules for Visual Studio via the free VSIP program. However, according to Dan Fernandez, Microsoft 'made a business decision to not allow 3rd party extensibility in Express'. Microsoft Visual Studio Express is a set of freeware integrated development environments (IDE) developed by Microsoft that are lightweight versions of the Microsoft Visual Studio product line.
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Express Editions were conceived beginning with Visual Studio 2005. You may want to check out more software, such as Microsoft Visual Basic 2008 Express - ESN, Cumulative Update for Microsoft Visual Basic or Microsoft Visual Basic Runtime SP6, which might be to Microsoft Visual Basic.
(How to Obtain Microsoft Support Files from Online Services Microsoft scanned this file for viruses. Microsoft used the most current virus-detection software that was available on the date that the file was posted. The file is stored on security-enhanced servers that help to prevent any unauthorized changes to the file. VBRun60sp6.exe installs the following core files that are included with Visual Studio 6.0 Service Pack 6. These files are the base dependencies for any component or application that is created in Visual Basic 6.0: File name Version Size Asycfilt.dll 2.40.4275.1 144 KB (147,728 bytes) Comcat.dll 4.71.1460.1 21.7 KB (22,288 bytes) Msvbvm60.dll 6.0.97.82 1.32 MB (1,386,496 bytes) Oleaut32.dll 2.40.4275.1 584 KB (598,288 bytes) Olepro32.dll 5.0.4275.1 160 KB (164,112 bytes) Stdole2.tlb 2.40.4275.1 17.5 KB (17,920 bytes) VBRun60sp6.exe also installs the following files. These files are supporting files for the VBRun60sp6.exe self-extracting file: File name Version Size Advpack.dll 4.71.1015.0 73.2 KB (74,960 bytes) Vbrun60.inf Not Applicable 1.04 KB (1,069 bytes) W95inf16.dll 4.71.704.0 2.21 KB (2,272 bytes) W95inf32.dll 4.71.16.0 4.5 KB (4,608 bytes) For information about the command-line arguments that are available for VBRun60sp6.exe, type the following at a command line.
(Outlook Deployment Kit (ODK) Setup command-line options Do I need the VBRun60sp6.exe file? The VBRun60sp6.exe file is not intended to replace the Package and Deployment Wizard (PDW) for distributing Visual Basic applications. For example, if your application includes components such as ActiveX controls or DLLs, use the PDW or a third-party setup package for distribution. However, if your Visual Basic application depends on only the files that are included in the VBRun60sp6.exe file, you can distribute your application by providing the executable (.exe) file and VBRun60sp6.exe to end users. To determine whether your application requires additional files for distribution, you can use the PDW to create a set of setup files as a test.
When the PDW creates a setup package, the PDW also creates a Setup.lst file. Open the Setup.lst file in a text editor such as Notepad. If the Setup1 Files section of the Setup.lst file contains only your.exe file, end users should be able to run your application after they run the VBRun60sp6.exe file to install the core run-time files. However, if the Setup1 Files section contains multiple files, consider using the PDW or a third-party setup package for distribution. In addition to distributing simple executables, you can also use the VBRun60sp6.exe file for the following: To minimize the size of Internet downloads of Visual Basic applications.
By running the Vbrun60sp6.exe file ahead of time, users can download your application from the Web faster. As a troubleshooting step when an installation of Visual Basic or a Visual Basic application fails. If Setup fails with an error message that mentions one of the core files, or if registration of a component fails during Setup, the core files on the target computer might be mismatched. If the versions of the files in the VBRun60sp6.exe file are newer than the versions on the target computer, you might resolve the problem by running the VBRun60sp6.exe file before you run Setup. For additional information about a specific example of a Setup problem that is resolved by running VBRun60.exe or VBRun60sp6.exe, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base.
(Setup.exe file linked to missing export Oleaut32.dll:185 You can obtain a self-extracting executable file that installs the original Visual Basic 6.0 run-time files by extracting VBRun60.exe from the VBRun60.cab file. The VBRun60.cab file is available on the Visual Basic and Visual Studio CDs. The VBRun60.cab file is located in the Common Tools Vb Cabinets folder on the Visual Basic 6.0 CD (Disk 1). On the Visual Studio 6.0 Professional CDs, the VBRun60.cab file is located in the same relative path on Disk 2. On the Visual Studio 6.0 Enterprise CDs, it is located on Disk 3. Note The version of the VBRun60sp6.exe file that is included in this Knowledge Base article is different from the one on the installation CD.
The version that is included in this article is the latest version. This version is included with Visual Studio 6.0 Service Pack 6.
You can use the Extract utility to extract the VBRun60.exe file from the VBRun60.cab cabinet file. The Extract.exe file is located in your Windows folder or on your installation CD for Microsoft Windows 95, Windows 98, or Windows NT. At an MS-DOS command prompt, run the following command to extract the file in the cabinet file into the current directory.
Need to support some old projects directly in the newest OS, not in a virtual machine. I've installed VB6 from the VS6 disk #1 successfully, but I cannot install the SP6 for this development environment.
When I launch it, an information window that informs me about the installation progress appears for some milliseconds, but the required files (ADVPACK.DLL, msvbvm60.dll.) aren't updated in the system folder. The About dialog in VB6 IDE also proves that - I do not see 'SP6' anywhere in it. How to install the SERVICE PACK 6 (not the VB IDE itself) in this OS? Visual Studio 6 + VB6 SP1 Installation.
Ensure UAC has been turned off. Ensure your user has administrative rights on the computer. Run the Setup.exe file in the Visual Studio Installer. “Run the program without getting help” when the error “This program has compatibility issues”. Click Next, Accept the Agreement and click Next. Enter your software key, name and company name.
Update Microsoft Virtual Machine for Java. “Run the program without getting help” when the error “This program has compatibility issues”. Note message shown twice. Say “Yes” to reboot the system. On start up the setup continues to run.
“Run the program without getting help”. Start Page shown.
Click on Desktop. “Run the program without getting help”.
Visual Studio 6.0 Enterprise Edition shown with options “Custom, Products or Server Application”. At this point click “Exit” on the installer and confirm with “Yes” otherwise an error will be shown if you continue.
Run the Setup.exe file in the Visual Studio Installer. “Run the program without getting help”. Click Next and Accept the Agreement and click Next. Enter your software key, name and company name. Select Custom and click Next.
Installation folder click next. “Run the program without getting help”. Click “Continue”. Product ID click “Ok”. Tools - Change Options - OLE/Com Object Viewer, Uncheck and click OK. Enterprise Tools - Change Options - Visual Studio Analyzer, Uncheck and click OK.
Data Access - Change Options - ADO, RDS and OLE DB Providers, Uncheck. At this point it warns saying the component is essential. Click OK and OK again. Click continue.
Say Yes to register environment variables. Say Yes to VSS DB format. Install box with “Destination File:” should appear.
Setup is updating your system message box should appear. Click OK to Windows NT Debug Symbols. Click Restart Windows. On start up the setup continues to run and loads APEMREG.exe. Install using compatibly settings. “Run the program without getting help”.
Untick install MSDN. Click Next and yes to confirm. Select Nothing and click Next. Select Nothing and click next. Untick Register and click finish. SP6 Installation.
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Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Runtime
Run setupsp6.exe. Click Continue. Click I Agree.
Setup Successful click OK. How To Install Visual Basic 6 (VB6) in Windows 10 Get your system prepared There is a need to prepare a file MSJAVA.DLL in your system directories so that the installation of VB6 could proceed. In terms of doing this, just get the installer VBPreInstall.exe and execute the installer.
Install VB6 and SP6 After getting MSJAVA.DLL ready, you can launch the Visual Basic 6 setup.exe file with administrator privilege to start the installation. Accept agreement, product key. Enter name and company information, click Next. Select Custom Setup, click Next. Click Next, wait for another windows pop up, click Continue, then Ok. Setup will “think to itself” for about 2 minutes.
Processing can be verified by starting Task Manager, and checking the CPU usage of ACMSETUP.EXE. On the options list, select the following: Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 ActiveX Data Access Graphics All other options should be unchecked. When you select 'Data Access', you need to click the Change Option button. You will then get another list of components with only 5 items. Select the first option “ADO, RDS, and OLE DB Providers” and click the Change Option button.
Visual Basic 6 Service Pack
Now you’ll get another list of components that belongs to the ADO, RDS and OLE DB Providers. Simply uncheck the first option “ADO and RDS” and click OK.
You should get a warning that this component is an essential part of the application and the application will not run properly if it is not installed. You can ignore that warning popup by clicking OK and proceeding with the installation. The VB6 installation setup should now complete successfully without problems. Uncheck MSDN setting. Click Next to skip the installation of Installshield.
This is a really old version you don't want anyway. Click Next again to skip the installation of BackOffice, VSS, and SNA Server. On the next dialog, uncheck the checkbox for “Register Now”, and click Finish. The wizard will exit, and you're done. You can find VB6 under Start, All Programs, Microsoft Visual Studio 6.
Install VB6 SP6 Install vb6 sp6 by navigating to VbSp6, run setupsp6.exe as administrator with default settings. I've tried both methods here on Windows 8.1 Update 2. At first the symptom had been the same as the OP, except that I was doing exactly what the OP did as his solution - extracting the files and running Vs6sp6.exe.
So I tried the other solution, installing MSDN. After MSDN installed, I tried SP6 again.
This time, it tells me it can't install because it can't find any VS6 products installed. But VB6 (without SP) still starts up fine. Also MSDN starts up normally. Any suggestions? If I have to run it in a VM I will; I already have Windows XP on a Hyper-V VM for the original early 90's Oxford English Dictionary. But it would be a lot more convenient if I could get it working directly in 8.1.
BTW I've been running it fine in Windows 7 for years. There are some hoops to go through to get it installed, and it changes the screen when it starts and stops, but overall not bad at all. While you can run VB6 in Windows 8.1 it's not going to do well and there will be any number of issues as you've discovered. An alternative option is to create a Virtual Machine using Hyper-V Manager which is, install Windows XP., Visual Studio 6, etc. Then remote desktop to your virtual machine and you're good to go.
Also, when windows 9, 10 and 11 arrive, your virtual machine can be transferred over to them or to a new PC all without breaking your VB6 development environment.Or Windows 7 32 bit if you have to but XP is better for VB6.
Need to support some old projects directly in the newest OS, not in a virtual machine. I've installed VB6 from the VS6 disk #1 successfully, but I cannot install the SP6 for this development environment. When I launch it, an information window that informs me about the installation progress appears for some milliseconds, but the required files (ADVPACK.DLL, msvbvm60.dll.) aren't updated in the system folder. The About dialog in VB6 IDE also proves that - I do not see 'SP6' anywhere in it. How to install the SERVICE PACK 6 (not the VB IDE itself) in this OS? Visual Studio 6 + VB6 SP1 Installation. Ensure UAC has been turned off.
Ensure your user has administrative rights on the computer. Run the Setup.exe file in the Visual Studio Installer. “Run the program without getting help” when the error “This program has compatibility issues”. Click Next, Accept the Agreement and click Next. Enter your software key, name and company name. Update Microsoft Virtual Machine for Java.
“Run the program without getting help” when the error “This program has compatibility issues”. Note message shown twice.
Say “Yes” to reboot the system. On start up the setup continues to run.
“Run the program without getting help”. Start Page shown. Click on Desktop.
“Run the program without getting help”. Visual Studio 6.0 Enterprise Edition shown with options “Custom, Products or Server Application”. At this point click “Exit” on the installer and confirm with “Yes” otherwise an error will be shown if you continue. Run the Setup.exe file in the Visual Studio Installer.
“Run the program without getting help”. Click Next and Accept the Agreement and click Next. Enter your software key, name and company name. Select Custom and click Next. Installation folder click next. “Run the program without getting help”. Click “Continue”.
Product ID click “Ok”. Tools - Change Options - OLE/Com Object Viewer, Uncheck and click OK. Enterprise Tools - Change Options - Visual Studio Analyzer, Uncheck and click OK. Data Access - Change Options - ADO, RDS and OLE DB Providers, Uncheck. At this point it warns saying the component is essential.
Click OK and OK again. Click continue. Say Yes to register environment variables.
Say Yes to VSS DB format. Install box with “Destination File:” should appear. Setup is updating your system message box should appear. Click OK to Windows NT Debug Symbols. Click Restart Windows. On start up the setup continues to run and loads APEMREG.exe. Install using compatibly settings.
“Run the program without getting help”. Untick install MSDN.
Click Next and yes to confirm. Select Nothing and click Next. Select Nothing and click next. Untick Register and click finish. SP6 Installation.
Run setupsp6.exe. Click Continue. Click I Agree. Setup Successful click OK.
How To Install Visual Basic 6 (VB6) in Windows 10 Get your system prepared There is a need to prepare a file MSJAVA.DLL in your system directories so that the installation of VB6 could proceed. In terms of doing this, just get the installer VBPreInstall.exe and execute the installer.
Install VB6 and SP6 After getting MSJAVA.DLL ready, you can launch the Visual Basic 6 setup.exe file with administrator privilege to start the installation. Accept agreement, product key. Enter name and company information, click Next. Select Custom Setup, click Next. Click Next, wait for another windows pop up, click Continue, then Ok.
Setup will “think to itself” for about 2 minutes. Processing can be verified by starting Task Manager, and checking the CPU usage of ACMSETUP.EXE. On the options list, select the following: Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 ActiveX Data Access Graphics All other options should be unchecked. When you select 'Data Access', you need to click the Change Option button. You will then get another list of components with only 5 items. Select the first option “ADO, RDS, and OLE DB Providers” and click the Change Option button.
Now you’ll get another list of components that belongs to the ADO, RDS and OLE DB Providers. Simply uncheck the first option “ADO and RDS” and click OK.
You should get a warning that this component is an essential part of the application and the application will not run properly if it is not installed. You can ignore that warning popup by clicking OK and proceeding with the installation. The VB6 installation setup should now complete successfully without problems. Uncheck MSDN setting.
Click Next to skip the installation of Installshield. This is a really old version you don't want anyway. Click Next again to skip the installation of BackOffice, VSS, and SNA Server. On the next dialog, uncheck the checkbox for “Register Now”, and click Finish.
The wizard will exit, and you're done. You can find VB6 under Start, All Programs, Microsoft Visual Studio 6. Install VB6 SP6 Install vb6 sp6 by navigating to VbSp6, run setupsp6.exe as administrator with default settings.
I've tried both methods here on Windows 8.1 Update 2. At first the symptom had been the same as the OP, except that I was doing exactly what the OP did as his solution - extracting the files and running Vs6sp6.exe. So I tried the other solution, installing MSDN. After MSDN installed, I tried SP6 again.
This time, it tells me it can't install because it can't find any VS6 products installed. But VB6 (without SP) still starts up fine. Also MSDN starts up normally. Any suggestions? If I have to run it in a VM I will; I already have Windows XP on a Hyper-V VM for the original early 90's Oxford English Dictionary.
But it would be a lot more convenient if I could get it working directly in 8.1. BTW I've been running it fine in Windows 7 for years. There are some hoops to go through to get it installed, and it changes the screen when it starts and stops, but overall not bad at all. While you can run VB6 in Windows 8.1 it's not going to do well and there will be any number of issues as you've discovered.
An alternative option is to create a Virtual Machine using Hyper-V Manager which is, install Windows XP., Visual Studio 6, etc. Then remote desktop to your virtual machine and you're good to go. Also, when windows 9, 10 and 11 arrive, your virtual machine can be transferred over to them or to a new PC all without breaking your VB6 development environment.Or Windows 7 32 bit if you have to but XP is better for VB6.
Need to support some old projects directly in the newest OS, not in a virtual machine. I've installed VB6 from the VS6 disk #1 successfully, but I cannot install the SP6 for this development environment. When I launch it, an information window that informs me about the installation progress appears for some milliseconds, but the required files (ADVPACK.DLL, msvbvm60.dll.) aren't updated in the system folder. The About dialog in VB6 IDE also proves that - I do not see 'SP6' anywhere in it. How to install the SERVICE PACK 6 (not the VB IDE itself) in this OS? Visual Studio 6 + VB6 SP1 Installation.
Ensure UAC has been turned off. Ensure your user has administrative rights on the computer. Run the Setup.exe file in the Visual Studio Installer. “Run the program without getting help” when the error “This program has compatibility issues”. Click Next, Accept the Agreement and click Next.
Enter your software key, name and company name. Update Microsoft Virtual Machine for Java.
“Run the program without getting help” when the error “This program has compatibility issues”. Note message shown twice. Say “Yes” to reboot the system. On start up the setup continues to run.
“Run the program without getting help”. Start Page shown.
Click on Desktop. “Run the program without getting help”. Visual Studio 6.0 Enterprise Edition shown with options “Custom, Products or Server Application”. At this point click “Exit” on the installer and confirm with “Yes” otherwise an error will be shown if you continue. Run the Setup.exe file in the Visual Studio Installer.
“Run the program without getting help”. Click Next and Accept the Agreement and click Next.
Enter your software key, name and company name. Select Custom and click Next.
Installation folder click next. “Run the program without getting help”.
Click “Continue”. Product ID click “Ok”. Tools - Change Options - OLE/Com Object Viewer, Uncheck and click OK.
Enterprise Tools - Change Options - Visual Studio Analyzer, Uncheck and click OK. Data Access - Change Options - ADO, RDS and OLE DB Providers, Uncheck. At this point it warns saying the component is essential.
Click OK and OK again. Click continue. Say Yes to register environment variables. Say Yes to VSS DB format.
Install box with “Destination File:” should appear. Setup is updating your system message box should appear. Click OK to Windows NT Debug Symbols. Click Restart Windows. On start up the setup continues to run and loads APEMREG.exe. Install using compatibly settings.
“Run the program without getting help”. Untick install MSDN. Click Next and yes to confirm.
Select Nothing and click Next. Select Nothing and click next. Untick Register and click finish. SP6 Installation. Run setupsp6.exe. Click Continue.
Click I Agree. Setup Successful click OK. How To Install Visual Basic 6 (VB6) in Windows 10 Get your system prepared There is a need to prepare a file MSJAVA.DLL in your system directories so that the installation of VB6 could proceed. In terms of doing this, just get the installer VBPreInstall.exe and execute the installer. Install VB6 and SP6 After getting MSJAVA.DLL ready, you can launch the Visual Basic 6 setup.exe file with administrator privilege to start the installation. Accept agreement, product key. Enter name and company information, click Next.
Select Custom Setup, click Next. Click Next, wait for another windows pop up, click Continue, then Ok. Setup will “think to itself” for about 2 minutes.
Processing can be verified by starting Task Manager, and checking the CPU usage of ACMSETUP.EXE. On the options list, select the following: Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 ActiveX Data Access Graphics All other options should be unchecked.
When you select 'Data Access', you need to click the Change Option button. You will then get another list of components with only 5 items. Select the first option “ADO, RDS, and OLE DB Providers” and click the Change Option button. Now you’ll get another list of components that belongs to the ADO, RDS and OLE DB Providers.
Simply uncheck the first option “ADO and RDS” and click OK. You should get a warning that this component is an essential part of the application and the application will not run properly if it is not installed. You can ignore that warning popup by clicking OK and proceeding with the installation. The VB6 installation setup should now complete successfully without problems. Uncheck MSDN setting. Click Next to skip the installation of Installshield.
This is a really old version you don't want anyway. Click Next again to skip the installation of BackOffice, VSS, and SNA Server. On the next dialog, uncheck the checkbox for “Register Now”, and click Finish. The wizard will exit, and you're done. You can find VB6 under Start, All Programs, Microsoft Visual Studio 6. Install VB6 SP6 Install vb6 sp6 by navigating to VbSp6, run setupsp6.exe as administrator with default settings. I've tried both methods here on Windows 8.1 Update 2.
At first the symptom had been the same as the OP, except that I was doing exactly what the OP did as his solution - extracting the files and running Vs6sp6.exe. So I tried the other solution, installing MSDN. After MSDN installed, I tried SP6 again. This time, it tells me it can't install because it can't find any VS6 products installed. But VB6 (without SP) still starts up fine.
Also MSDN starts up normally. Any suggestions? If I have to run it in a VM I will; I already have Windows XP on a Hyper-V VM for the original early 90's Oxford English Dictionary. But it would be a lot more convenient if I could get it working directly in 8.1.
BTW I've been running it fine in Windows 7 for years. There are some hoops to go through to get it installed, and it changes the screen when it starts and stops, but overall not bad at all. While you can run VB6 in Windows 8.1 it's not going to do well and there will be any number of issues as you've discovered. An alternative option is to create a Virtual Machine using Hyper-V Manager which is, install Windows XP., Visual Studio 6, etc. Then remote desktop to your virtual machine and you're good to go. Also, when windows 9, 10 and 11 arrive, your virtual machine can be transferred over to them or to a new PC all without breaking your VB6 development environment.Or Windows 7 32 bit if you have to but XP is better for VB6.