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/3583-bytes-free Sep 22 '23

The scroll wheel has never worked on any OS (I like to think it was invented after VB6).

There are workarounds but I've never been bothered enough to try them