Running Visual Studio 6 C++ in Windows 8.1

Question

I recently migrated my system to windows 8.1. Unfortunatly like some others, I am not able to start Visual Studio 6 anymore. The software is crashing at startup (splash scre

Answer 1

Run MS-Dos as Administrator and follow instructions..

For Windows 8.1 64bit, type:

ren "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Common\MSDev98\Bin\MSDEV.EXE" MSDEV3.EXE

For Windows 8.1 32bit, type:

ren "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\Common\MSDev98\Bin\MSDEV.EXE" MSDEV3.EXE

Now go to your desktop and right click in any empty space then choose New -> Shortcut, and then if you have Windows 8.1 64bit set the location to: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Common\MSDev98\Bin\MSDEV3.EXE

or if you have Windows 8.1 32bit set it to: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\Common\MSDev98\Bin\MSDEV3.EXE