I installed my VB6 pro using the method posted by wunder in post #78. The only problem I have is when I open a very old app (written 15+ years ago) I get lots of "automation error, element not found", actually 58 of them. This corresponds to the number of DataEnvironments that the app uses. I know Dataenvironments are bad but the app has them and I don't want to rewrite the app, the client has no desire to pay for that. Unfortunately the MS Library documentation for VB6 has an example of how to create a DataReport and it uses a DataEnvironment. So, all the reports use a Dataenvironment as the datasource. I tried to manually register the "MSDERUN.DLL" but was unsuccessful.

Is there another method of installing VB6 on Win 8 that would solve this automation error problem? Or some way to manually install the DLL's necessary to stop the error.

Except for the initial errors when loading the app, everything else seems to be working ok. I'm able to modify the code and compile the app.

Any information would be appreciated.