Visual Basic 6.

0 Installation Guide

In this lesson, you will learn about installing visual basic 6.0 installation for
enterprise edition on your computer.

For the purpose of this lesson, we will use windows 7 64-bit. This guide is for a
beginner of visual basic 6.0 programming to get them started.You will need the
installation disk for visual basic 6.0 enterprise edition.

Installation Requirements

Before installation, you could check for installation requirements as given below.
These are based on visual basic .net software installation requirement which is
more or less same for visual basic 6.

Requirements Hardware/Software Components

Processor Pentium-III or above, 600 MHz

RAM 256 MB or above

Windows 2000, XP, Vista, 2003 server or Windows 7 (both 64-bit or 32-
Operating Systems bit )

Disk Space 900 MB

Video 800 x 600, 256 color resolution minimum

CD Drive If you are using CD drive for installation

Visual Basic 6.0 Setup

You can now start the installation and each step of installation is shown below,
so that there is no surprises. When you start the Visual Basic 6 setup, the
installation wizard pops up.

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l Basic 6.0 Installation Wizard

The setup will walk you through the steps to installation. At each step, you will
have to provide some information. Click  Next to start the installation process.

Visua
l Basic Installation – End User License Agreement

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In the next screen, select “I accept the agreement” for the end-user license
agreement, people never read the license, but you should read it quickly as it
contains some information about the usage of this software product and then
click Next again.

Enter Product Number and User ID

You can now enter the product number and a user id on the next screen. The
product number is supplied with the installation disk or written on the disk. The
username can be a personal name or an institution name if you are from an
institution that has provided you with the software.

Click Next to continue to the next screen.

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l Basic 6.0 Installation Guide – Custom Server Setup Options
Now you are provided with two options.

1. Install Visual Basic 6.0 Enterprise Edition

2. Server Applications
The first option installs everything and do not leave an option to choose what
you want to install. Whereas, the second option gives you individual application
or tools you can choose to install.

Select “Install Visual Basic 6.0 Enterprise Edition ” and click Next to continue.

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se an Install Folder

Visual Basic 6.0 setup automatically selects the default installation directory
under “Program Files”, however, if you want to change the default installation
directory then you can do it now. Then click  Next to continue.

Visual Basic 6.0 Enterprise Setup

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Now you get the Visual Basic 6.0 Enterprise Setup screen, this is the setup which
will install VB 6 on your computer. If you are satisfied with inputs provided on
previous screens, click Continue.

Product ID Window
You product ID will be displayed on this screen and it’s just an information
before the installation, you can click “OK”.

Set
up Searching for Installed Components
The setup now looks for installed component if any before it starts with the
installation.

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 Select Typical Installation
In the next screen, the actual VB 6 installation begins. Here setup gives you two
choices.

1. Typical Installation
2. Custom
The typical components are the essential components of visual basic 6 software.
It does not contain features that extends the functionality of visual basic 6
software.

The custom option gives you a chance to select exactly what you want. But you
must be an advanced VB programmer to be able to do that. Select “ Typical” and
begin the installation.

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 Click YES for Source Safe Database Format

Sometimes, the setup will ask you to select the visual source safe database,
instead of the old database. Click  yes and continue with the installation.
At this point, the setup starts installing your file which may take some time,
depending on your computer.

Setup Installing Files – Visual Basic 6.0 Installation Guide

After setup completes, you have to restart the computer to finish the installation.

Click on Restart on the next screen.

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 Restart Windows
It will take a few minutes to complete the installation. When your computer is
restarted and you have logged in successfully.

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 Exit Installation
You will see the setup wizard, prompting to install  MSDN library. It is nothing
but documentation that you view online about Visual Studio 6.0. You can stop
the installation by clicking “Exit”.

It is time to verify the Visual Basic 6.0 Enterprise edition installation. So go

to start menu and click All Programs.

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 Confirm Installation
If you see the Visual Basic 6.0 directory entries in the start menu than it is
installed successfully.

Common Issues

We have made a list of common issues with installing visual basic 6.0 on a
windows computer.

1. Program Compatibility
2. Not enough disk space
3. Very Low Screen Resolution
4. Missing files

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The most common issue with installing visual basic 6 on modern windows PC
like windows 7 or 8 is program compatibility.

To resolve this issue, go to visual basic  setup.exe file and right click and
select properties.

Visual Basic 6.0 Setup.exe – go to properties

Once you opened the properties window, select the  Compatibility tab and
change the compatibility mode. You can change it to  Windows XP sp3. The
software will run as if it is running on windows XP sp3 operating system.

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You must also change the administrative control, select  “Run this program as
an administrator” and click OK.

The second problem you face during installation is “ Not enough disk space
message” and a disk is due to many reasons. You may have too much junk files
under the windows temp folder or there may be less disk space on your
computer.

Go to Run dialog on your computer, type  %temp% and click OK. You will see
the windows as shown below with a lot of temporary files. You must delete all of
these files immediately.

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