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

1. Go to "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Common\MSDev98\Bin"
2. Rename MSDEV.exe to MSDEV-S.exe (or any other name) - first try the name mentioned before; if it does not work then use MSDEV3-S.exe or any other name like that.
3. Go to search by moving your mouse to the right down edge of your screen and type this C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0
4. Open it and go to Common\MSDev98\Bin and run MSDEV3-S.exe. If that causes an error, then rerun again and hopefully you will succeed!

This is similar to what Francios has posted but you do not need to change the target.