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Error when opening Visual Studio 1

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cdipaolo

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May 1, 2002
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I have Visual Studio 6.0 with SP4. When I open the application Windows Installer appears and the dialog box says "Installing...." but nothing ever happens. I can click once on one of the top menu items and then am completely frozen (have to ctrl+alt+del) in the application (can go to other applications meanwhile.

Any ideas of why this is happening? The other products installed like FoxPro, InterDev, C++ etc. are all opening just fine...

Thanks in advance.
 
SP6 is available for Visual Studio 6. Try installing that before trying anything else. Here's a link to the SP:

[URL unfurl="true"]http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/downloads/updates/sp/vs6/sp6/default.aspx[/url]

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Thanks for the advice, although I'm still getting the same error. Someone here said it was because it was trying to update the version of OWC that I have installed. I don't actually want to do that so I would normally cancel the installer, but (a) it doesn't actually end up installing anything (hangs there) and (b) when I hit cancel it hangs there.

Not worth worrying about if it takes any effort - all of my work at this point can be done in MS Access.
 
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