installer does not work for VB application, what can I do?
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I bought an old graphic software written in VB6. I paid $30. the author sent me the installer and I can NOT install it on Windows 7 and Windows Vista. The install or continue button does not show up and I can not continue the installation process. What can I do to make the installer work? UPDATE: I just installed VB6 runtime plus and it works now.
diligent hands rule....
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I bought an old graphic software written in VB6. I paid $30. the author sent me the installer and I can NOT install it on Windows 7 and Windows Vista. The install or continue button does not show up and I can not continue the installation process. What can I do to make the installer work? UPDATE: I just installed VB6 runtime plus and it works now.
diligent hands rule....
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Have you discussed with the author?
"A little song, a little dance, a little seltzer down your pants" Chuckles the clown
this professor does not have solution for this. he would like tear my check or send it back to me :)
diligent hands rule....
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I bought an old graphic software written in VB6. I paid $30. the author sent me the installer and I can NOT install it on Windows 7 and Windows Vista. The install or continue button does not show up and I can not continue the installation process. What can I do to make the installer work? UPDATE: I just installed VB6 runtime plus and it works now.
diligent hands rule....
Assuming you haven't tried to run the install as a windows XP or 7 program? Right click the executable, Properties, compatibility and 'Run this program in compatibility mode for' and choose an os. Edit: You might make sure that your display is at 100% and not 125%. It is under display properties, you can adjust the scale. Sometimes apps especially older ones don't scale well.
Jack of all trades, master of none, though often times better than master of one.
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Assuming you haven't tried to run the install as a windows XP or 7 program? Right click the executable, Properties, compatibility and 'Run this program in compatibility mode for' and choose an os. Edit: You might make sure that your display is at 100% and not 125%. It is under display properties, you can adjust the scale. Sometimes apps especially older ones don't scale well.
Jack of all trades, master of none, though often times better than master of one.
thanks for the info:rose:
diligent hands rule....
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I bought an old graphic software written in VB6. I paid $30. the author sent me the installer and I can NOT install it on Windows 7 and Windows Vista. The install or continue button does not show up and I can not continue the installation process. What can I do to make the installer work? UPDATE: I just installed VB6 runtime plus and it works now.
diligent hands rule....
I bought a 1999 shop manual wrapped in a XP virtual machine. It works.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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I bought a 1999 shop manual wrapped in a XP virtual machine. It works.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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I bought an old graphic software written in VB6. I paid $30. the author sent me the installer and I can NOT install it on Windows 7 and Windows Vista. The install or continue button does not show up and I can not continue the installation process. What can I do to make the installer work? UPDATE: I just installed VB6 runtime plus and it works now.
diligent hands rule....
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I bought an old graphic software written in VB6. I paid $30. the author sent me the installer and I can NOT install it on Windows 7 and Windows Vista. The install or continue button does not show up and I can not continue the installation process. What can I do to make the installer work? UPDATE: I just installed VB6 runtime plus and it works now.
diligent hands rule....
You need to look at the files and check which common controls, dll's etc is included. You then need to manually install all if not most of the controls manually to run, still no promises made. It is very old tech, like installing disc brakes on a 1932 Ford, you have to change so many components to make it work, is it really worth the effort begs the question... :rolleyes: a Solution I posted at the time, not sure it might wotk still - Installing VB6 Applications on VISTA or Windows 7[^]
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I bought an old graphic software written in VB6. I paid $30. the author sent me the installer and I can NOT install it on Windows 7 and Windows Vista. The install or continue button does not show up and I can not continue the installation process. What can I do to make the installer work? UPDATE: I just installed VB6 runtime plus and it works now.
diligent hands rule....
I do not think the programming language is the cause of your problem. I'd guess it's a problem with the installer itself. Search the product forum / interwebs for the installer name (InstallShield?) and the problem as you have described it here. Good luck! :) FWIW, we install VB6 applications on Win10 and now Win11 all the time without any problems...except for a recent issue of the Win11 print preview misbehaving...a good reason to get a new system for testing as none of my current systems are eligible for the upgrade. :)
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse "Hope is contagious"
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I bought an old graphic software written in VB6. I paid $30. the author sent me the installer and I can NOT install it on Windows 7 and Windows Vista. The install or continue button does not show up and I can not continue the installation process. What can I do to make the installer work? UPDATE: I just installed VB6 runtime plus and it works now.
diligent hands rule....
Why on God's Green Earth are you wasting your time with old, unsupported, closed-sourced software that the author would rather tear up your $30 check than support? Let's be real for a minute, we're talking VB for image processing. I'd be hard pressed to believe there's not an alternative a bit more modern.
Jeremy Falcon
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You need to look at the files and check which common controls, dll's etc is included. You then need to manually install all if not most of the controls manually to run, still no promises made. It is very old tech, like installing disc brakes on a 1932 Ford, you have to change so many components to make it work, is it really worth the effort begs the question... :rolleyes: a Solution I posted at the time, not sure it might wotk still - Installing VB6 Applications on VISTA or Windows 7[^]
this link is great:rose:
diligent hands rule....
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I do not think the programming language is the cause of your problem. I'd guess it's a problem with the installer itself. Search the product forum / interwebs for the installer name (InstallShield?) and the problem as you have described it here. Good luck! :) FWIW, we install VB6 applications on Win10 and now Win11 all the time without any problems...except for a recent issue of the Win11 print preview misbehaving...a good reason to get a new system for testing as none of my current systems are eligible for the upgrade. :)
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse "Hope is contagious"
thanks for your info:rose:
diligent hands rule....
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Why on God's Green Earth are you wasting your time with old, unsupported, closed-sourced software that the author would rather tear up your $30 check than support? Let's be real for a minute, we're talking VB for image processing. I'd be hard pressed to believe there's not an alternative a bit more modern.
Jeremy Falcon
it generates some beautiful images that will be used in my future articles...
diligent hands rule....