James Zhou 2000

installing Visual Studio 6.0 on Vista Ultimate

copied the notes from the following link:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vbinterop/thread/107b0be9-da73-4a14-8326-5c87f85b5ac3/


Step 1) Open C:\ServicePack5Dir\sp598ent.stf with 'Notepad.exe'
Step 2) Replace the following line
13 Group 28 36 38 29 30 32 26 27 14 25 16 17 20 18 19 15 39 21 22 24 23 43

-with-

13 Group 28 38 29 30 32 26 27 14 25 16 17 20 18 19 15 39 21 22 24 23 43

Step 3) Delete the following lines leaving only a carriage return where it was

36 Depend "27 ? : 37"
37 IsWin95 CustomAction "sp598ent.dll,CheckForMDAC"

Step 4) Save and close C:\ServicePack5Dir\sp598ent.stf-


If you do not wish to modify this file yourself, you may download it directly from this url...http://www.tnexgen.com/vs6sp5/sp598ent.stf- Once you are done with that, you must run right click 'setupsp5.exe' and choose 'Run as Administrator' (if you do not run as administrator it will not work)

posted by jameszhou2000 @ 12:20 PM