When I installed Win 10 (32 bits) on a computer, a rather old Geforce motherboard with an AMD processor and 2 Gig ram, I had no other goal than just take a peek at it and see if it worked, both Win 10 and that old motherboard that had never ran before, it had been on my computer stuff shelves for what, almost 8 years now, as the packing slip would indicate.

Install went without a glitch, Win 10 was running.

Next in line of course was to see if my VB6 apps would run. They did.

Well that's it... And then this morning : Would Visual Studio install?

I have read in the past how problematic it could be to install VS on Win 7 or 8. After a bit of googling, it seemed that, yes, there could be issues.. it seemed awfully complicated without any warranty of success.

Ahhh what the heck... just slip in the CD in the DVD drive and see what happens. So I ran set-up in the automatic troubleshooting mode of Win 10. Not a single error (actually one, but I'll skip that here). Twenty minutes or so later, I had VS enterprise edition (without MSDN) all installed.

Will the the VB6 IDE run? It does. There is one single error. VB6 starts with a message : DataView : Error in the OLE registry. I can live without Dataview. I installed VB SP6. It did not solve the error.

Let's move on. One of my not so tiny pet peave in WIN 10 is than you can NOT Drag-drop files with unknown extensions in Notepad or it's shortcut. Bummer, I use that 50 times a day.

First VB6 app, 4 lines of code, a container to shell execute notepad with a filename. App compiled and worked. Both on the app and it's shortcut. Let's move on.

Second app. Here again, just a few of lines of code to drag-drop a file on a picture box. It compiled and worked fine too.

The only other glitch I encountered, besides the Dataview erron on starting VB6 is that it did not let me save a in the standard ...VB98..whatever folder. That was a mistake on my part , I did not intent to save there anyway. Saving elsewhere worked fine.

So that's how it is on this sunny sunday, VB6 IDE running on Win 10. Early stages you'll say? Looks promising I'll say.