I recently built a new system and reinstalled all my old stuff to
it. After installing Visual Studio 6, 2003, and 2005, I tried to
install SP5 for VB6, but it keeps telling me

"Because Setup did not detect any Visual Studio 6.0 products on your
system, the service pack will not be installed."

Hmm, so I tried uninstalling VS6 and reinstalling, same symptom.
Tried installing SP6, with same error message. I've Googled on this
message and with several variations on search terms, and visited the
MSDN VB support area with no joy. I even started VB6 and left it
running while trying to install the service pack. The install
dutifully notified me that VS was running and that I should shut it
down, then when I clicked OK it continued and gave me the same
message about not being able to find any VS products(??).

Everything seems to be working, so far anyway. All my existing
projects load and run as expected, etc., but I would really like to
get the SP installed, since those projects were originally created
with it in place. Anybody run into this before and find an answer?
Any ideas where to look, or specific search terms to try? Google and
MSDN haven't helped so far.  Any suggestions?

Cheers,
Scott

Sorry 'bout that last. Hit Reply and changed the subject line, which works
fine in mail but threads wrong in Usenet. My bad.

Cheers,
Scott