vb6 Development on Windows 11

[axisdj]

Hello Group,

I am curious how many have moved to Windows 11 machine for vb6 development.

I have stayed on windows 7 for a while now, but finanly had time to get my windows 11 machine up and compiling all my projects.

any words of caution?

thanks

[Eduardo-]

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any words of caution?

Nothing special, similar to W10.

[axisdj]

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Nothing special, similar to W10.

I actually feel the GUI is much more refined, and things we are used to are easier to fine (file explorer)

The rounded edges on windows also feel good

[Eduardo-]

I actually feel the GUI is much more refined, and things we are used to are easier to fine (file explorer)

The rounded edges on windows also feel good

I assume you are talking about W11 and not VB6 on W11.

I didn't like it much, the first thing I did was to change the position of taskbar icons from center to the traditional left side.
Another annoying thing was the contextual (right click) menu on explorer, I had to change a configuration to go to the normal menu. And Perhaps another thing that I already forgot.
The rounded corners of the windows seem good. 20 years later than others, but yeah...

[Niya]

The rounded corners of the windows seem good. 20 years later than others, but yeah...

I personally loved Aero Glass. It was the best Windows has ever looked. I wish they would bring it back.

[couttsj]

Some time ago, I moved VB6 development from Windows 8.1 to Windows 11. I have not encountered any issues related to VB6 in this new environment, but the same cannot be said for Windows 11 itself. It has taken a considerable amount of time to make the OS usable. The amount of advertising and background processing was phenomenal, and MS Edge was one of the major contributors. Out of the box, Win 11 used 52% of memory with nothing running. With very little online help, I have managed to get that down to 35%. What used to take 2 or 3 clicks, now takes 5 or 6. And those disappearing scroll bars are extremely annoying. I really miss having everything to do with the OS in one nice tight little Control Panel. All the fancy graphics does nothing for me.

J.A. Coutts

[fafalone]

Hopefully by the time support for 10 ends and they start colluding with hardware companies to force people onto 11, there will be something similar to LTSC.

Family and friends use consumer 10 and the level of advertising, shovelware, background stuff, telemetry, etc, already make me want to upgrade them to Windows: I Threw Your Computer Out of One Edition every time I'm asked to fix something, which is often. Far more often than 7. My mom has a laptop that allegedly meets the requirements for 10 but every time there's an update, it maxes out the cpu and disk for hours, making it unusable. Just opening task manager took several minutes, and it either doesn't let you stop the offending processes or just immediately restarts them. From what I've seen, they've made the "No, it's our computer, not yours, you have to do things this way" is even worse in 11, with them making local accounts require a bunch of technical tricks 99% of users can't or won't follow and automatically uploading **** to OneDrive.

[Eduardo-]

They believe not only that your computer is theirs, but you are theirs too.

And you are... call it "person" or use whatever word, you are something to be programmed.

[LeonChan]

I transferred my vb6 application from window 10 to window 11 but find that the sql queries that has a like operator does not run. It always report -2147217900 out of memory. Anyone know how to fix?

[AthlonArg]

I like that I can see the controls with the Windows 11 GUI, but not the window. I can see the rounded edges when running it

[LeonChan]

I also don't like Window 11. I installed vb6 on it but find that it cannot install the sp6. Glad that others can do development on it but still don't know if I can do that too. When I run the vb6 without sp6, the IDE simply exit. Anyone can help me to fix such problem?
And my application that run on Window 10 now only run partially on Window 11. So I simply is not on production mode. Consider to downgrade the new PC to Window 10, but I also like gaming. So I have not decided yet.

[Eduardo-]

When I run the vb6 without sp6, the IDE simply exit. Anyone can help me to fix such problem?

The question is why you don't install SP6.

[LeonChan]

The problem is simply it fails to install sp6

[DaveDavis]

Hopefully by the time support for 10 ends and they start colluding with hardware companies to force people onto 11, there will be something similar to LTSC.

Family and friends use consumer 10 and the level of advertising, shovelware, background stuff, telemetry, etc, already make me want to upgrade them to Windows: I Threw Your Computer Out of One Edition every time I'm asked to fix something, which is often. Far more often than 7. My mom has a laptop that allegedly meets the requirements for 10 but every time there's an update, it maxes out the cpu and disk for hours, making it unusable. Just opening task manager took several minutes, and it either doesn't let you stop the offending processes or just immediately restarts them. From what I've seen, they've made the "No, it's our computer, not yours, you have to do things this way" is even worse in 11, with them making local accounts require a bunch of technical tricks 99% of users can't or won't follow and automatically uploading **** to OneDrive.

They are forcing you to change the OS from Hard Disk to SSD to solve those hanging problem...

[LeonChan]

The problem is simply it fails to install sp6

To follow up, I finally successfully installed sp6 with the enterprise edition of the visual studio ( visual basic 6 )