Uploadfiles/20120910141153623.jpg' alt='How To Install Activex Control On Windows Xp' title='How To Install Activex Control On Windows Xp' />Install VB6 on Windows 7. Install VB6 on Windows 7. Posted On 2. 00. 9 0. Keywords Tags VB6 Miscellaneous. Tutorial. Software HackTweak Windows 7. Vista. Windows. Views 5. After surfing around the net, Ive found very little information regarding installation of VB6 on Windows 7. Most of the information out there is for Vista, and most of it is queries for assistance. You may be wondering why someone would want to utilize VB6 on a shiny new operating system like Windows 7. Or even Vista for that matter. There are about a bazillion legacy applications out there that have to be supported, and people like me who speak VB6 need to have the tools installed on our workstations in order to implement and test updates and such for these legacy applications. It also helps out when I need to squirt out a quick tool for use in my daily work. This process has been tested on Windows 7, both 3. Note Ive updated this process with information from the comments below the post. If Ive left something out, dont hesitate to point it out. Also Thanks to all of you Your comments and suggestions are much appreciated. Note 2 If you have a specific programming questions, might I please direct your attention to the VB6 forum Its much easier to interact over there Prerequisites You need to do this stuff first. Turn off UAC. Create a zero byte file in C Windows called MSJAVA. DLL. The setup process will look for this file, and if it doesnt find it, will force an installation of old, old Java, and require a reboot. By creating the zero byte file, the installation of moldy Java is bypassed, and no reboot will be required. Install Direct. X 7. The process and files are available here. Install VB6 Common Controls, available here. Main Installation Insert Visual Studio 6 CD. IE10_-UnableToInstallAddon5.png' alt='How To Install Activex Control On Windows Xp' title='How To Install Activex Control On Windows Xp' />Exit from the Autorun setup. Browse to the root folder of the VS6 CD. Right click SETUP. EXE, select Run As Administrator. On this and other Program Compatibility Assistant warnings, click Run Program. Click Next. Click I accept agreement, then Next. Enter name and company information, click Next. Select Custom Setup, click Next. Click Continue, then Ok. Setup will think to itself for about 2 minutes. Processing can be verified by starting Task Manager, and checking the CPU usage of ACMSETUP. EXE. On the options list, select the following. Microsoft Visual Basic 6. Active. XData Access. Graphics. All other options should be unchecked. How to Install ActiveX on Windows XP. When browsing the Web using Internet Explorer, some websites may require you to download or install their Active X controls in. Solution We have this issue with speco camera systems. All of the files needed are kept in cab files when the activex install comes up at least for speco. I. Works with Microsoft Windows 8, 7, Vista, XP or 2000 on on Internet Explorer 8 9 and Opera. Dear power users, everytime I open the microsoft update page on Inetrnet Explorer, it checks if I have the latest version of Microsoft update. After a few seconds I. Latest bug fixes for Microsoft Windows, including fixes for some possible DoS attacks. Click Continue, setup will continue. Finally, a successful completion dialog will appear, at which click Ok. At this point, Visual Basic 6 is installed. If you do not have the MSDN CD, clear the checkbox on the next dialog, and click next. Youll be warned of the lack of MSDN, but just click Yes to accept. Click Next to skip the installation of Installshield. This is a really old version you dont want anyway. Click Next again to skip the installation of Back. Office, VSS, and SNA Server. Not needed On the next dialog, clear the checkbox for Register Now, and click Finish. IDE Compatibility Setup. In order to prevent weird behavior of the IDE, such as sluggishness andor lack of control placementresizing outlines, youll want to change these items. Using Windows Explorer, browse the location where you installed VB6. By default, the path is C Program FilesMicrosoft Visual StudioVB9. Right click the VB6. Click on the Compatibility tab. Place a check in each of these checkboxes. Run this program in compatibility mode for Windows XP Service Pack 3Disable Visual Themes. Disable Desktop Composition. Disable display scaling on high DPI settings. Service Pack 6 Installation About the Authordwirch has posted a total of 1. Comments On This Post. Do you have a thought relating to this post You can post your comment here. If you have an unrelated question, you can use the Q A section to ask it. Or you can drop a note to the administrators if youre not sure where you should post. Installing COMCTL3. OCX and MSCOMCTL. OCX on a Windows XP Machine. I recently had to install the Microsoft Common Controls on an XP machine that had never had this stuff installed before Probably these files were missing because this machine had never had Microsoft Office, or VB, or Visual Studio, or whatever suite installs these items. I needed these files to run a Fox. Pro app that I had written which used the Tree. View control from the VB6MSCOMCTL. OCX library. Here is what I learned and how I got it working Note There are TWO Common Control libraries out there. You must figure out which one you need. The older VB 5 Common Controls COMTL3. OCX     and. 2. The newer VB6 Common Controls MSCOMCTL. OCX Regarding the older COMCTL3. OCX VB5 era versus the newer MSCOMCTL. OCX from VB6 era, one user on Stack. Overflow had this to say The earlier Common Controls 5. XPVista than the Common Controls 6. I suggest using it instead rpetrich Aug 1. Step 0 Before installing either of the Microsoft Common Controls you must have the following versions of the Automation system files on your system OLEAUT3. DLL     2. 2. 0. 4. COMCAT. DLL        4. OLEPRO3. 2. DLL    5. ASYCFILT. DLL    2. STDOLE2. TLB        2. You may or may not have these files on your system already. I really dont know how these files generally get installed on a new system if they are part of the main OS install, or if they get installed with other common Microsoft suites. My guess is that if you have Office 9. Visual Basic 5. 0, Visual Studio, Internet Explorer, or Visual C, etc, you should already have these Automation system files. Either way, if you do not have these files on your system, you must first download and install them as documented in the following Microsoft Knowledge Base article Download here http support. EN USDefault download filename will be named Msvbvm. For the older VB 5 Common Controls COMTL3. OCX Follow Step 0 above. Once you are sure you have the correct Automation system files on your computer, you can install COMCTL3. OCX by executing COMCTL3. EXE. This will install the following files COMCTL3. OCX    5. 0. 0. 3. Updated Active. X control. COMCTL3. 2. DEP    5. Dependency info for Visual Basic 5. Setup Wizard MSSTKPRP. DL      5. 0. 0. 3. Design Time Stock Property Pages. The setup program does not install a licenseto use COMCTL3. OCX for development. You must already have a license installed on your system by one of the products listed in the applies to section above in order to COMCTL3. OCX for development. Download the COMCTL3. The default download filename will be comctlzp. Note You must then unzip this exe to get the actual installable exe file. Ball Blue Book Guide To Preserving Online here. For the newer VB6 Common Controls MSCOMCTL. OCX Follow Step 0 above. As far I could determine, there is no official download link from Microsoft for MSCOMCTL. OCX. You can find tons of free download links all over the internet, but those sites always scare me as they might contain viruses or malware. I learned a lot about the issues around getting the files downloaded and installed here http stackoverflow. So, based on the info on the above post, here is what I did Locate this file MSCOMCTL. OCX on some other XP machine that already has the file. Path is C WindowsSystem 3. Copy this file to the same path C WINDOWSSYSTEM3. Register the file by running regsvr. C WINDOWSSYSTEM3. MSCOMCTL. OCX at the command window. Admin right are probably required.