Visual Studio 6 CD1 - Setup.exe Fails
Stephen Silvey
Visual Studio Installation CD1? It attempts to run,
causes and exception, and wants to send a report to
Microsoft. No reason is given. VS was previously
installed and uninstalled properly. Since, have installed
Windows XP - SP1. Am running on a P4-1.8 GHZ 256 MB RAM
machine with plenty of HDD space. A strange note, though,
I was able to copy over my XP-Home Laptop installation,
modify the SETUP.STF file to fix the C:\Windows to
C:\WINNT locations, and get setup to run, and reinstall.
However there are too many errors about DLL files that
won't register, and I had to do a lot of manual registry
manipulation (not deletion) in order to actually get it to
run. It works, but I'm not happy about SETUP.EXE. What
will it take to get that to run again? BTW, the
reinstallation used the CD to reinstall from just
fine...??? What the heck is Microsoft doing here!!!???
Help if you have seen this problem before.
Wes
You are not alone with this problem... I and many others have the same
issue. I have looked everywhere I can think of to find a solution but no
luck.
If you do find a fix, please let us know.
Wes
"Stephen Silvey" <silvey...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Wes
I eventually found this on the microsoft site.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q192731
It worked for me... but only after renaming the Perfc009.dat file.
Good luck and happy coding
Wes
Jim Carlock
Did you install any new hardware? New CD ROM, etc?
Sometimes having DMA access for the CD ROM might cause problems, especially
if the CD-ROM is on the same cable as the Hard Drive.
Just throwing out a guess.
One way to test this theory is to try to copy the files from the CD-ROM to
the Hard Drive and then trying to install from the Hard Drive. If you
successfully copy the files, do a binary file comparison (FC.EXE) to compare
the files. If the files are mismatched in any way, I'd suggest that
something is wrong with the hardware setup.
Jim Carlock
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Stephen Silvey
Thank you for contacting Microsoft Developer Support, my
name is Billy Zhang. I have taken the ownership of this
case and will assist you with this service request.
I understand that you want to remove and re-installed
Visual Studio 6.0 Enterprise on Windows XP system.
However, you cannot get Visual Studio CD1 - SETUP.EXE to
run. If I misunderstood your concerns, please feel free to
let me know.
Have you received any error message when running
SETUP.EXE, it just crashed?
Have you tried the following article to manually remove
the Visual Studio 6.0?
HOWTO: Manually Uninstall Visual Studio with MSDN Library
http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;en-us;Q248697
You should neglect the steps to uninstall MSDN and html
help. Also neglect the steps of removing the registry
regarding MSDN and html help.
If this doesn't work, please try the following suggestions.
1. If you installed any anti-virus application in your
computer please try to disable the real-time monitor
functionality or even uninstall the application to check
whether or not the problem still exists.
2. Try to install it booting into safe mode.
3. Try to set MSCONFIG to SELCECTIVE STARTUP option and
reboot and install.
The reason I request this is to remove any third party
intervention and return the system back to a MS only type
of configuration. If you have not already tried this
please do the following:
a. Open a Start- Run dialog and type MSCONFIG and then
select OK
b. On the General Tab please select the SELCECTIVE STARTUP
option and then deselect/un-check all sub options on the
square boxes.
c. Select APPLY and OK - the system will need to reboot -
do so
d. Once the system is back up disable any antivirus or
system protection software if any is running and attempt
to install Visual Basic 6.0.
If the above suggestions don¡¯t work, let¡¯s try the
following steps.
We found out what was missing in the acmsetup that caused
it to report an error. The setup wizard that is crashing
needs to write a registry key. Acmsetup is expecting to
find that registry key. When it doesn't find it, it
reports an error.
Edit this attached reg file which is fit for VS6
Enterprise Edition to reflect where you want the VS common
directory to be. Any text editor such as notepad will
work. The directory in the reg file attached is the
default installation location.
Import the reg file onto the problem machine. If you
rename the file to vs6.reg, you can just double-click on
this file in the Windows Explorer and it will get imported
for you. Otherwise, you will need to use regedit.exe.
Then we can go directly to acmsetup. Sometimes it is
necessary to do a complete uninstall of the product before
running acmsetup. Acmsetup is very picky about its command-
line, so any typo can cause a failure.
The Q248697 article will tell you which registry keys and
folders to delete.
<http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q248/6/97
.asp>
The Q250343 article tells you how to construct the command-
line for acmsetup
<http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q250/3/43
.asp>
For example:
Use the following command line from the Start-Run dialog
box
D:\SETUP\ACMSETUP.EXE /T VS98ENT.STF /S
D:\ /n "" /o "" /k "8845695476" /b1
If you have any concerns or questions regarding this
issue, please feel free to let me know. It is my pleasure
to be of further assistance.
I am looking forward to hearing from you.
Best Regards,
Billy Zhang
Microsoft Developer Support
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Stephen Silvey
the regedit util, do an import into your machine)
Begin After This Line:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio]
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\6.0]
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\6.0
\Setup]
"VsCommonDir"="C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Visual
Studio\\Common"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\6.0
\Setup\Visual Studio 98]
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\6.0
\Setup\Visual Studio 98\SetupWizard]
"aspo"=dword:38395356
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\6.0
\Setup\Visual Studio 98\SetupWizard-1033-ENT]
"heuristics"=hex:00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00
--End Before This Line
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Gaidheal
from the commandline as well as the registry file?
TIA for any help
P.S. The previous posts solved my VS6 installation troubles, which the
official fix from MS did not.
Unknown
any more help pls....
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