Problem Installing VB 6.0

[jthig32]

Hi there,

I installed Visual Studio 6.0 last night, and when I try to run VB, the IDE opens, but so does and windows installer box, and states that it is "Preparing to Install". It will sit like this indefinitely. If I hit cancel, it says "Preparing to Cancel", and will again sit indefinitely.

I have my VS cd in the drive, but it does not seem to try to install off of it.

I have installed this copy of Visual Studio any number of times, and this is the first problem I have had.

Any suggestion other than doing a re-install?

[DiGiTaIErRoR]

That exact same thing happened to me!

It was something else I installed. I removed it, then it worked fine.

I'm thinking it was a plug-in, but maybe not. It was a while ago.

[Madboy]

Check for 3rd party OCX that may be still be on your pc, which arnt used.

Check the registry for invalid VB6 entries (has this been installed before)

Run a program (such as Ashampoo! Optimizer,Tune Up etc) to clean up Windows, IE and the registry for Redundant Entries and other values no longer in use

[shahid]

try another cd...it may have some files miss..

or try the cd to another PC