Installing VB6 without Java

Posted by  in July 14, 2004    * Comments(3)     

As part of a recent rebuilt, I needed to install VB6.  When you try to install VB6 from the VS6 CD’s, you get prompted to install Java presumably for the sake of Visual Interdev.  I really didn’t want to install ms’s java and not their outdated version.  So a bit of monitoring with SysInternals FileMon and RegMon quickly identified the *fix*


Create a new file, name it msjava.dll and place it in your windows directory. The file can be zero length.  You can then happily install without the prompt to install Java J


Once you have installed VB6, delete the msjava.dll otherwise windows update will prompt you to update it.



3 Comments so far

  1.   Matthew W. Jackson on September 14th, 2004          

    Installing Visual Studio 6.0 without the MS JVM

  2.   Phil on May 23rd, 2005          

    Excellent tip, thanks very much Bill !

  3.   Kees on August 5th, 2005          

    This is just the information I needed. Installing MS Java VM off the Visual Studio CD when you run a complete up-to-date Windows XP with Sun’s Java is quite useless and annoying.

    Now I can just go on installing it without the Java VM, thank you very much!

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