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Visual Studio 6 Javasign.dll Error

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Wednesday, July 14, 2010 12:32 PM

Getting following error installing Disk one of Visual Studio 6.

 "Javasign.dll was unable to register itself in the system resistry."  Installation is not complete....try re-installing.

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Thursday, July 15, 2010 10:27 AM âś…Answered

Hi 4apple,

Thank you for your post.

Some clarification with you:
What's your OS?

Firstly, for Visual Studio 6.0 products, they are not supported in MSDN forums. You might check the Support Lifecycle information from the following website:
http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?p1=3003

When using Visual Studio 6.0 products on Windows Vista or later OS, we might face some issue since Visual Studio 6.0 products are not supported.
As stable development environments, it would be better to apply Visual Studio 6.0 on XP instead of Vista or Windows 7.

Please ensure that you install Visual Studio 6.0 with Administrator account.

Hope this helps! If you have any concern, please feel free to let me know.

Best regards,
Yichun ChenPlease remember to mark the replies as answers if they help and unmark them if they provide no help.
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Wednesday, July 14, 2010 6:18 PM

Hi 4Apple,

Thanks for the post.

I need some confirmation before I represent the scenario for you. Are you using Windows XP or Windows Vista?

If you are using Windows Vista, you need to turn of the UAC from User Control Panel then try again installing the same.

  1. Open Control Panel.
  2. Under User Account and Family settings click on the "Add or remove user account". 
  3. Click on one of the user accounts, for example you can use the Guest account.
  4. Under the user account click on the "Go to the main User Account page" link. 
  5. Under "Make changes to your user account" click on the "Change security settings" link. 
  6. In the "Turn on User Account Control (UAC) to make your computer more secure" click to unselect the "Use User Account Control (UAC) to help protect your computer". Click on the Ok button. 
  7. You will be prompted to reboot your computer. Do so when ready.
     

In order to re-enable UAC just select the above checkbox and reboot.

If you are using different version of Windows please let us know.

I hope this helps.

Raman Katwal

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Thursday, August 25, 2016 7:52 PM | 1 vote

I ran into this issue as well this afternoon and wanted to share my resolution steps. In this scenario, I was trying to install Visual Studio 6.0 Professional on Windows 7 64-bit (specifically needing VB6 and VC++6 components).

First, followed the steps to create a zero-byte MSJava.dll file, as per this thread:
http://www.fortypoundhead.com/showcontent.asp?artid=23907

Also, when installing VS 6, I unchecked the following components from the install:

  • Microsoft Visual FoxPro 6.0
  • Microsoft Visual InterDev 6.0

Here is the screenshot of the components that were excluded.

After excluding these components, the install completed successfully.

Sunday, August 28, 2016 1:06 PM

You can also use this installer...

VB6 programming IDE installer

Microsoft VB6 programming support (VB6 Support Statement, VB6 Programming IDE Installer)