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I bought an old graphic software written in VB6. I paid $30. the author sent me the installer and I can NOT install it on Windows 7 and Windows Vista. The install or continue button does not show up and I can not continue the installation process.
What can I do to make the installer work?
UPDATE:
I just installed VB6 runtime plus and it works now.
diligent hands rule....
modified 18-Feb-24 16:12pm.
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Have you discussed with the author?
"A little song, a little dance, a little seltzer down your pants"
Chuckles the clown
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this professor does not have solution for this. he would like tear my check or send it back to me 
diligent hands rule....
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Assuming you haven't tried to run the install as a windows XP or 7 program? Right click the executable, Properties, compatibility and 'Run this program in compatibility mode for' and choose an os.
Edit:
You might make sure that your display is at 100% and not 125%. It is under display properties, you can adjust the scale. Sometimes apps especially older ones don't scale well.
Jack of all trades, master of none, though often times better than master of one.
modified 16-Feb-24 12:38pm.
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thanks for the info![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
diligent hands rule....
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I bought a 1999 shop manual wrapped in a XP virtual machine. It works.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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Gerry Schmitz wrote: XP virtual machine
I would consider that the best way to try this.
Even if the installer did work in a newer OS, the app might still behave oddly.
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Are you on 64-bit Windows? If so then the issue is that the installer is most likely a 16-bit application, which 64-bit Windows doesn't support.
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You need to look at the files and check which common controls, dll's etc is included. You then need to manually install all if not most of the controls manually to run, still no promises made. It is very old tech, like installing disc brakes on a 1932 Ford, you have to change so many components to make it work, is it really worth the effort begs the question... 
a Solution I posted at the time, not sure it might wotk still - Installing VB6 Applications on VISTA or Windows 7[^]
modified 16-Feb-24 15:31pm.
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this link is great
diligent hands rule....
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I do not think the programming language is the cause of your problem. I'd guess it's a problem with the installer itself. Search the product forum / interwebs for the installer name (InstallShield?) and the problem as you have described it here. Good luck!
FWIW, we install VB6 applications on Win10 and now Win11 all the time without any problems...except for a recent issue of the Win11 print preview misbehaving...a good reason to get a new system for testing as none of my current systems are eligible for the upgrade.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
"Hope is contagious"
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thanks for your info
diligent hands rule....
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Why on God's Green Earth are you wasting your time with old, unsupported, closed-sourced software that the author would rather tear up your $30 check than support?
Let's be real for a minute, we're talking VB for image processing. I'd be hard pressed to believe there's not an alternative a bit more modern.
Jeremy Falcon
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it generates some beautiful images that will be used in my future articles...
diligent hands rule....
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If there is, I'd like to check it out. I am planning to get a drone.
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yeah - by a cheap drone and discover how hard these things are actually to fly! 
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The kids gave me an inexpensive drone for Christmas, which came with very little documentation – literally how to get it to go up and nothing on how to land it and turn it off.
I took it to the school yard to try it out. It went up as expected, controls worked well, and - um - landing ...
The manual said the auto-return button would bring it back from anywhere and land, so I pushed it. The drone shot a couple hundred feet up in the air and hovered there. (I may have disengaged the auto landing by pushing the button a second time.)
Anyway, my answer to the question is "Get a tiny cheap one and try it out."
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Playstation I or II had some good radio control helicopter games.
If the controls are similar, you could save a lot of crashes with your drone. The controls took a super light touch.
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Googling suggests there is.
game drone simulator pc
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I would like a Pepperoni with extra cheese please, thank you!
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Look for R/C flight simulators. They're almost guaranteed to have drones now. Many will also interface with an actual real R/C controller.
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So, dusted off this not too old article - Email Clients[^]
I suppose if other people paid my bills, I would not care. So, other than Outlook, what are you using these days for email clients?
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Outlook on PC, GMail on Android.
The Android version of Outlook doesn't want to connect to my email server, though Gmail dived right in and filled in all the details for me. One day I'll summon up the enthusiasm to fix the Outlook settings, but ... if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Thunderbird.
>64
It’s weird being the same age as old people.
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