Sorry but a member had posted they were having troubles installing VS6 and at the time I didn't have much more than second hand knowledge about that. This is a follow up now that I have a work machine (guinea pig) to bring my knowledge up to first hand experience.
Be aware that this is not to say that all this was necessary but to share what I did.
1. Take the new laptop out of the box and follow the maker's instructions about first time use.
2. Create the restore DVDs.
3. Decline the install of Norton, installed Free AVG.
4. Turned off UAC.
5. Begin the install of VS6. Click ok and continue when it tells me about it having compatibility issues.
6. Installed the MSDN CDs. Same click of the ok and continue when it tells me about compatibility issues.
7. Install Visual Studio Service Pack 6. DO NOT INSTALL OLDER SERVICE PACKS!
8. Always answer "keep newer file" when the installers ask if you want to replace a new file with an old version (some dozen times?)
9. At some point Vista will pop up a box about "Vista has blocked some features of this application." To those I tell Vista to stop blocking such since it's needed for VS6 to work properly.
That's it. Visual Studio 6 with old Visual Basic 6 is now up and doing fine.
Cheers,
Bob

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