Running Visual Studio 6 C++ in Windows 8.1

Question

I recently migrated my system to windows 8.1. Unfortunatly like some others, I am not able to start Visual Studio 6 anymore. The software is crashing at startup (splash scre

Answer 1

I have VS6 running on Windows 8.1 fine after I found these helpful instructions:

http://blog.wavosaur.com/run-visual-c-6-on-windows-8/

It is unusual indeed that Windows 8 retained compatibility for VS6 without this additional work, and yet Windows 8.1 does not. I hope this helps!