Is-it necessary to be Local Administrator on a Workstation to run VB6 ?

Question

Hi all,

I would like to know if it is necessary to be Local Administrator on a Workstation to run VB6 ? I mean, just run VB6, write code and compile it. I do not mean to register DLLs, write in registry, etc. .. My question is just asked at the VB6 application level.

Thank you in advance for your feedback.

AMD

Answer 1

This forum is not for VB6

However, you are probably better of in a sys admin forum

http://technet.micosoft.com/forums

 

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Answer 2

Hi,

Sorry if it's not the right forum.

I thought it was the good one as it's the Visual Basic General forum.

Best regards,

AMD

Answer 3

See the following resource for VB 6.0 questions:

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vbgeneral/thread/6a0719fe-14af-47f7-9f51-a8ea2b9c8d6b

 

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Answer 4

Thanks for the pointer.

AMD

 

Answer 5

Hi all,

I would like to know if it is necessary to be Local Administrator on a Workstation to run VB6 ? I mean, just run VB6, write code and compile it. I do not mean to register DLLs, write in registry, etc. .. My question is just asked at the VB6 application level.

Thank you in advance for your feedback.

AMD

The answer to your question is, yes, you need admin privledges for VB6 to run without error.  If you don't have them, you'll get error messages when creating projects and starting the IDE (you can start it with admin privledges just for VB6 and that works).  This is my experience with VB6 (I have it on both a Vista and Windows 7 box).  I also had to uncheck the OLE utilities when installing on Vista and Windows 7 of the installation would crash.  If this is a deal breaker I would suggest running it on a Windows XP Virtual Machine.

Answer 6

Hi Bpel,

Thanks a lot for your feedback.

So if I understand well, you meet an error message when you just start VB6 under Windows Vista or Windows 7 with a "Standard user" profile ? Am I correct ?

Did you test it with a clean Workstation or with one that has a lot of softwares installed ?

Do you mean that under Windows XP (without speaking about Virtual Machine) it works without Local Admin rights ?

Thanks a lot in advance for your feedback.

Best regards,

AMD

Answer 7

Hi Bpel,

Thanks a lot for your feedback.

So if I understand well, you meet an error message when you just start VB6 under Windows Vista or Windows 7 with a "Standard user" profile ? Am I correct ?

Did you test it with a clean Workstation or with one that has a lot of softwares installed ?

Do you mean that under Windows XP (without speaking about Virtual Machine) it works without Local Admin rights ?

Thanks a lot in advance for your feedback.

Best regards,

AMD

The workstation had other software installed, but it was a freshly setup machine (e.g. wiped clean, Windows installed, VS2010, 2008, VB6 and other dev tools installed).

Yes, XP without local admin rights worked for me.

Answer 8

Hi Bepel,

Thanks a lot for your answer and for your feedback.

Have a nice day.

AMD