Quote Originally Posted by Krool View Post
The only downside is that the IDE is slow.
This is probably a description of sluggish Form design window drag operations and such while Aero is enabled. You can just set this to disabled on VB6.EXE via the appcompat Properties of the EXE. You can also set "Run as admin" here, which you need to do anyway (there is no mystery about UAC, development always requires elevation to avoid a quagmire).

XP has no support for the standard Windows "touch" APIs (at least not until Tablet Edition, which is not available for general installation in a VM anyway).

Just use Win7, forget "XP Mode."