I just installed VB6, VS6SP6d, October 2001 MSDN, and my appcompat database (SDB) to virtualize desktop painting and run as admin. So far all looks good.

The only headache I ran into was a USB DVD/CD drive. Worked ok to install VB6 but had fits trying to install MSDN Help. Drive kept disconnecting and reconnecting. I think the drive might be bad because it fails even trying to copy stuff from a CD to the hard drive.

So I shared a DVD/CD drive on another system, which has no such issues. Worked great. Even better, I was able to RDP into the Win11 x64 box from the system with the good drive in it to make changing disks easier (less running around).


Weird. That USB drive is a Samsung so not just some cheapo. I suppose it was stored where it got very hot and very cold with the seasons so maybe that was the issue. I know it used to work. Doh!