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Jack - 11 May 2007 00:01 GMT

For some reason everytime I start VB6 it loads a VS2005 installation window
that forces me to enter my VB2005 CD, then takes 10-15 minutes to re-install
some component before it will open VB6.

Has anyone see this behavior? It was working fine and just started after a
re-boot the other day.

It makes it so that it take forever to get anything done....

Jack

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Walter Wang [MSFT] - 11 May 2007 16:17 GMT

Hi Jack,

This issue might be related to corrupt registry or missing files. Please
help me on following points:

1) Is VB2005 running correctly?

2) Try to disable all vb6 addins by directly editing %windir%\vbaddin.ini
to change all value to zero.

3) Try to reinstall VB6.

4) Uninstall VB2005 and try to see if this issue still exists.

Regards,
Walter Wang (wawang@online.microsoft.com, remove 'online.')
Microsoft Online Community Support

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Jack - 11 May 2007 18:22 GMT

I repaired VS05 and VB6 and it still acted the same way. Then I realized
that it did the same thing when Outlook (verison 2000) was loaded, so I
repaired Office. It seems to be corrected now.

Thanks,

Jack

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Walter Wang [MSFT] - 14 May 2007 08:19 GMT

Hi Jack,

That might be the cause. There're some shared components between Office and
VB6.

Please feel free to let me know if the issue re-occurs.

Have a nice day!

Regards,
Walter Wang (wawang@online.microsoft.com, remove 'online.')
Microsoft Online Community Support

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VS 2005 Install when starting VB6