Grace tante, GG.

It is exactly what I was needing. Part of the message was:

"For the record, here's how I managed to install Visual Studio 6.0
Professional Edition + SP5 under XP SP1, with guidance from Microsoft
Product Support:

After loading the VS6 CD and exiting from the error dialog ("setup has
encountered a problem and needs to close"), I instead ran the following
command line to launch the ACMSETUP directly:

D:\SETUP\ACMSETUP.EXE /T VS98Pro.STF /S D:\ /n "" /o "" /k "PRODUCTKEYHERE"
/b 1

where my CD drive is D:, and I substituted my VS6 CD Key (without hyphen)
for PRODUCTKEYHERE (keeping the surrounding quotes). This launched the
Visual Studio 6 setup, but soon failed with the catch-22: "You must first
run the Installation Wizard before running this setup", so that attempt had
to be aborted.

The remedy for this second problem was to import a Microsoft-provided .REG
file (182 KB), which added a bunch of entries under the registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio \6.0. After running this
registry update (i.e. by double-clicking on the .REG file), I was able to
repeat the preceding ACMESETUP command line and successfully perform a full
installation of VS6. There were no further complications when I then
applied the SP5 upgrade."

I also thank Michael Asherman (mda@ideaxchg.com) for this detailed posting.

So I only need the file. Do you think I could get the .reg file here? I have no easy way to get the needed information from another registry.

Maybe someone from MS can help?

Have a nice day,

Cristian