How to install Visual FoxPro 6 on Windows 10

[duartevds]

Hi, I have a leagacy system on Visual FoxPro 6. I need to install de VFP6 on Windows 10, but setup file was freeze. What's the secret to install vfp6 on Windows 10?

Thanks.

 

[Tore Bleken]

I guess you must install as administrator. This means that you must right click the installation exe, and select Run As Administrator.

 

[Olaf Doschke]

You are the application developer and want to continue product support in VFP6?
I don't know whether you can install VFP6 on Windows 10. If you manage, post back, but the last OS I know of supporting VFP6 is Vista, see

http://www.visualfoxprospecialists.co.nz/foxpro-compatibility-chart.htm

The chart never was updated with further OS versions. What runs in Vista should also run in Windows 7, but Windows 10 is not necessarily supporting it. VFP6 was already difficult to install on newer than XP systems.
First of all its part of VS98. And I guess you don't get SP5 anymore. If you still have your older dev machine you should try to install by copying the VFP folder structure, then run VFP6.exe /regserver.

If you only want to get your system developed in VFP6 up and running, the chances are higher you get it to work, but you should have a setup of your application and login as admin isn't sufficient since Vista. Either your setup is called setup.exee or install.exe to trigger installer detection and automatically let the start of it do UAC elevation, or you do so manually, as Tore Bleken said, right click -> run as admin.

Bye, Olaf.

 

[Tore Bleken]

Olaf,

Every version of Visual Foxpro will run on Windows 10.

 

[Mike Lewis]

I agree with Tore. I can't see any reason for not installing it in the usual way. Have you tried doing that? If so, what was the result?

Also, are you sure you need to install VFP 6? You say you have a "legacy system". If it is a compiled application, you don't need VFP itself to be installed (unless you plan to do some maintenance or alterations to the system).

Mike

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[ggreen61]

If you have VFP 6 already installed somewhere else, then I believe you can just 'copy' the installation directory from the installed system to the Windows 10 system. You should copy to a directory under "c:\program files (x86)\...". Then create your own menu short-cuts. I think VFP will create the registry entries on it own. This is at least a try...

 

[Mike Lewis]

If you have VFP 6 already installed somewhere else, then I believe you can just 'copy' the installation directory from the installed system to the Windows 10 system. You should copy to a directory under "c:\program files (x86)\...". Then create your own menu short-cuts. I think VFP will create the registry entries on it own.

You're right that you can just copy the directory structure. At least, that works with later versions of VFP, so probably will with 6 as well. But VFP won't create the registry entries on its own. However, you can use RegEdit to export the relevant entries from the source machine, and then import them on the target.

With most versions of VFP, you can pass -R as a command-line parameter to restore the file associations, but I believe that option is not available in VFP 6.

In any case, none of this is really necessary. Assuming you have a VFP CD, you should just be able to install it in the normal way. As I asked earlier, have you tried doing that?

Mike

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Mike Lewis (Edinburgh, Scotland)

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[StefanFoerner]

Hi all,

I have installed VFP 6.0 on almost every Windows Version since Windows 95, as well as on Windows 7 / 64 Bit and now Windows 10 / 64 Bit without a problem and working 100 % !

Also no need to run the VFP 6.0 setup as an administrator !

I always used the original VFP 6.0 CD.

I would recommend it first to update Windows 10 to the newest version.

My version: Version 1607 (Build 14393.693)

Regards, Stefan

 

[Mike Lewis]

It would be nice if Mr Duartevds would come back to let us know if he has tried any of our suggestions, and, if so, if any had worked.

It would also be most helpful to see an answer to my earlier question: Has he tried just installing from the CD in the usual way? And, if so, what went wrong?

Mike

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[capri1966]

I'm using VFP 6 and VFP 9 on Windows 10 and it's run ok

 

[JackTheC]

I had problems too installing Visual Studio 6.0 languages (VB and VFP) in Win10-64 bit.
This site helped me:

http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/locutus/how-to-install-visual-studio-6-onto-windows-10-70155

 

[Olaf Doschke]

Jack hits one nail. I remember you had to even edit some files to get SP5 installed even already in XP. I wouldn't run VFP6 without SP5 and to be honest I wouldn't even use VFP6 with SP5, I would rather upgrade a customer project to VFP9 for free, just for my own convenience and productivity, if I would need to maintain an older project.

Bye, Olaf.

 

[JackTheC]

Yes Olaf, to install SP5 one should edit sp598ent.stf, deleting "36" on line 13 and emptying line 36 and 37 as described here:

https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/F...-2-5384?forum=windowsgeneraldevelopmentissues