Hello,

I am getting the error iviewers.dll was unable to register itself in the
system registry when trying to install Visual Studio 6. I thought this may
had been a UAC issue, so I logged into the Administrator account, but had the
same problems.

I am not able to install Visual Studio 6 (setup failed).

I wonder if the "free" Visual Studio 2005 "express" versions are any worse
than Visual Studio 6? I think Visual Studio 6 came out when I was in
college, and I graduated in 1996, we're talking some 10 years later now so
it seems silly not to have upgraded.

-Rob

"Hoop" <Hoop@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:DE2515E1-B518-4253-BE04-F970B4F3D982@microsoft.com...[color=blue]
> Hello,
>
> I am getting the error iviewers.dll was unable to register itself in the
> system registry when trying to install Visual Studio 6. I thought this may
> had been a UAC issue, so I logged into the Administrator account, but had
> the
> same problems.
>
> I am not able to install Visual Studio 6 (setup failed).[/color]

Rob,

I agree that I prefer Visual Studio 2005 and except for some painting issues
in Vista, VS2005 works great for me. But since I work for an ISV that still
needs to support Visual Studio 6 for our ActiveX controls, I need to install
VS6 on Vista. According to what I have heard, in the current build of Vista,
Visual Studio 6 is the only supported IDE.

"robw" wrote:
[color=blue]
> I wonder if the "free" Visual Studio 2005 "express" versions are any worse
> than Visual Studio 6? I think Visual Studio 6 came out when I was in
> college, and I graduated in 1996, we're talking some 10 years later now so
> it seems silly not to have upgraded.
>
> -Rob
>
> "Hoop" <Hoop@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:DE2515E1-B518-4253-BE04-F970B4F3D982@microsoft.com...[color=green]
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am getting the error iviewers.dll was unable to register itself in the
> > system registry when trying to install Visual Studio 6. I thought this may
> > had been a UAC issue, so I logged into the Administrator account, but had
> > the
> > same problems.
> >
> > I am not able to install Visual Studio 6 (setup failed).[/color]
>
>
>[/color]