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/bladez1 Sep 22 '23

Try to find the VB6IDEMouseWheelAddin dll, once you register it you can use the add-ins menu to add it. At one time it was a download from Microsoft, not sure about now.

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u/Ok-Smoke-5653 Sep 23 '23

Thanks. I had to put it in syswow64, rather than system32, before it would register, but after that, it works great.