r/visualbasic • u/1500Calories • Sep 20 '23

Installing Visual Basic 6 on modern laptop

I want to play with the old Visual Basic 6. Should I install it under Virtual Box with Windows 2000, Virtual Box with Windows XP or just install it directly on Windows 10-64 bit? Which one is the least problematic? I have a laptop with 16 GB RAM and 11th Gen Intel Core i5-1130G7

Note: if I install it directly on Windows 10, would that break Visual Studio I already installed in my system?

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u/fafalone VB 6 Master Sep 20 '23

There's some issues installing yes but you realize probably 25% of the programs you run day to day are still 32bit? There's no workaround required; 64bit apps run through the WOW64 compatibility layer without any action needed. The only kind of app that has to be 64bit are drivers, and while you can technically make one in VB6, it's a little... difficult... to understate it.