Program Installation problems

December 7, 2007

I've got a new system with Windows XP 64 bit.

I was able to install many programs I need.

I'm working on an old VB6 project which uses several pretty old third party

controls.

I installed 2 Sheridan ActiveX controls with no problem, but another 2 with

the same age from the same Sheridan say "Setup.exe is valid, but for a

different system".

The company Sheridan is not alive, the project is too big to be modified.

Is there any trick or work around to install those obsolete ActiveX controls

on 64bit?

Thank you

vovan

December 7, 2007

Re: Program Installation problems

They are likely 16-bit controls. 64-bit Windows cannot run 16-bit

code, including legacy 16-bit setup programs.

That being said, if you want to keep XP64, but don't need it for that

particular project, you could install XP32 in a virtual machine and

run your program with that. I use Virtualbox (http://www.virtualbox.org) and

it runs XP32 extremely well. I recently got an old program that

included a 16-bit setup, and with this virtual machine I was able to

run the setup and then move the (32-bit) installed program out to my

XP64 machine.

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