HELP: Unable to install Visual Studio 6.0 SP6 on XP SP2

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NightMan - 24 Feb 2005 22:58 GMT

Hi,

Finally I managed to install Visual Studio 6.0 on XP with SP2. I read
in one of the articals that setting the Setup.exe to run in Windows 98
compatibality mode works; I tried it and it did work, except the
following DLLs did not register:

oledb32.dll, msado15.dll, msadds.dll, msadce.dll and msaprst.dll

but I registered them manually, so it wasn't a major issue.

The setup finished saing that the setup had failed, but everything
seems to work so far.

the above was a bit of background to the problem I'm having now.

Now the problem I have is that when I try to install Visual Studio 6.0
SP6 it says that it will not install because it did not find any
visual studio 6.0 components installed.

But I have installed them; I'm guesing is because the setup didn't
finish properly (perhaps because of the unregistered dlls).

Has anyone else had this or a similar problem, and can anyone help?

Thanks

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eXistenZ - 06 Apr 2005 15:57 GMT

ok.. i seen this error on many forums and i had it too k to install
visual studio 6.0 properly go to \Setup\ACost.exe edit the Vs98ent.stf
file then you might delete the old one and save the new one with the
same name in the same folder if you'll save as over the old one it wont
work because the file has read only attribute you might wanna remove
that attribute if you want to do that anyway this is all now you can
use acmboot.exe from the main folder and install it, yes it will work
now because you modfied the stf file and it wont say that you need to
use setup.exe if you got more questions or problems regarded to this go
to [url]www.ChateX.cjb.net[/url] and post a message there. good luck

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HELP: Unable to install Visual Studio 6.0 SP6 on XP SP2

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