I read a discussion about this and was surprised the VB 6 installs but the later 2 versions fail. I don't have a clue why you are having an install issue but one person complained to me and when they showed me it failing the CDs were not originals but (bad) copies. There was nothing I could do for them except hand them the Microsoft 800 number to get replacement media.
Bob
I tried unsuccessfully to install VB under Win. Vista. After updating JAVA, it prompts directly to install MSDN. But even insert the disk MSDN 1 and MSDN 2 into CD rom, still failed. It prompts right back Vista desktop. Any idea?

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