Windows 7 Computer
 

Anyone have a working Win-7 PC for sale?

Why do you need a Win 7?

Have you tried the compatibility mode in the Windows later versions?

My Visual Basic (VB) 6 only installs on Win-7.

Mainstream Support for Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 ended on March 31, 2005, and Extended support ended in March 2008. However, primary components of the Visual Basic 6 development environment run in all 32-bit versions of Windows up to and including Windows 11.

Tip: graduate yourself to Visual Basic .NET. You're basically asking "I need a washboard and bucket because my laundry shed doesn't have room in it for a washing machine."

The solution to that would be either - get a stackable washer/dryer, take your clothes to a laundromat instead, get a smaller washing machine, or renovate the shed so you can wash your clothes like normal people.

VB6 won't install on my Win-11.

I have a Dell Windows XP and Dell monitor New in Box sitting in my basement.

I bought them for my office, years ago when I was updating all of my work stations.

I decided to use my iMac for my personal computer so we never needed it.

I kept it just in case I had to expand my system or replace one of the other units but never used it.

LMK if that would help you and I'll bring them down when I'm back next month.

That is correct. But VB .NET will. You upgraded your entire computer operating system, why use legacy code that you can't do anything with?

I'm retired and don't have the time to convert 125,000 lines of source code into Net. I have a working backup Win7 and just looking for another. Once compiled my program runs fine and the customers love it and could care less of the coding used. The problem is Microsoft -- stopping support for something they previously fully supported. Shame on them.

You could try virtualizing windows 7 on an existing computer with oracle virtualbox.

Thanks - but that won't allow installation of VB6's 3rd-party legacy utilities.

I guess I am confused are your customers running W7 computers? Just a thought, could you use one of the AI programs to do the conversion to VisualBasic.net? If so, I believe this would allow you to continue providing service under the new environment. I wish you a lot of luck, your program(s) are way more complicated than anything I ever wrote, I think the most complicated was under 100 pages, so less than 8000 lines of code.

My customers run my program on everything from XP to Win-11 (including 3rd party virtual windowing on Apple, etc). I'll eventually locate a good, used Win-7 system for backup purposes.

For those nay-sayers, I have to keep a Win-7 laptop around because I have an old Radio Shack police scanner and the interface cable drivers to program the frequencies stopped working with one of the later updates to Win-10. It's old, no updates coming so I'm glad I didn't throw that old laptop away. And before anybody says that the old scanner won't pick up police, there are plenty of other things to listen to such as aircraft, Ham, and even our HOA ground crews.

I have an old laptop running Windows 7. Would that work for your needs?

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Really? Just curious why that won’t work. You’re running a full copy of windows 7 in a virtual computer. Entire data centers are built on that technology running all kinds of software stacks.

What are your customers going to do when you can no longer support the programs? Either from illness or death?

I have a microsoft surface pro 3 that I can put windows 7 on for $100

I have two different different options for youk I have both MicroSoft surface Pro 3 with windows 7 and I also have Fijitsu P7230 with windows 7. I will install windows 7 on either one and sell either one to you for $100 with windows 7 installed

Installing vb6 on win11
 

This is an interesting thread. I bought a new win11 computer several months ago and used a special program to move all programs from old win10 computer to new win11 computer. I assumed vb6 moved and would work. I tested it and saw the same error you mentioned. Some googling I found a lot of info on how to install vb6 on win11. Some of the web pages are very complicated or run v6 in vm. The following link looks pretty easy and MIGHT work. I have not tested the steps...but Im gonna give it a go at some point when Im bored.

Visual Basic 6.0 Download for Windows 7/8/10/11 (32/64-bit)

goggle this for more ideas...
"visual basic 6 on win11"

Good luck
Bob

This company will make a brand new one with plenty of RAM etc. I had two of their computers until just recently. Very reliable. NEW Windows 7 Computers and Desktop for Sale

I have a backup plan.

Windows 7 computer
 

I have a very nice reset Windows 10 computer that I think I can load VB6 on. I have a couple Windows 11 pCs that I have VB6 on. Send me your email address and I will let you know. harry@htsoftware.com

Really? I have never had a problem with Virtualbox with anything.

You can't compile VB6.0 on a win.11 OS. Win.11 is NOT backward compatible with VB, other than VB.net.

Is there anyone out there that's a big fan of Microsoft??

I have one that you can have for free. Send me a pm and you can have it.

Windows 7 computer
 

I have successfully loaded VB6 on the Windows 10 computer. Works fine. Let me know if you are still interested.

Virtualbox lets you create an entire virtual machine running whatever operating system on it you want. So you'd load up virtualbox, load a real genuine copy of windows 7 inside of the virtual machine within virtualbox, then load vb or whatever else on top of that genuine real copy of windows 7 running in a virtual machine on top of your windows 10 or 11 machine. Problem solved,.

I can also load on Vista, but on Win-10+ the 3rd party "vbctrols.reg" won't install.