I make VB6 programs for a living. Alas, yesterday, the Win 11 update 24H2 killed VB6 on my desktop machine. Compiled programs run fine, but the IDE development part crashes on startup. Some time ago, I updated the machine from Win 10 to Win 11. No problems with VB6 whatsoever. But then 24H2 came along… and effectively made updating my 100 VB6 apps impossible.
Any ideas anyone? Yes yes,already re-installet VB6 Enterprise to no avail. My Win 11 laptop runs VB6 just fine however. But the 24H2 has not hit the laptop yet.
If I have to re-install Win 10 and then VB6 again + a vast number of other apps, I’ll go really mad. Should such a thing happen again, I’ll have to lift everything over to Unix and ban M$. With the trail of last years’ update disasters in mind, you cannot trust M$ updates anymore. Of course I’ve blocked further updates on both machines. No further updates until they have been tested for 6 months.
Right, VB6 is a prehistoric relic, but thousands of users/programmers like myself are still using it. Many big companies have made heavy investments in their VB6 base. Cannot be re-programmed “just like that”. For users, VB6 is often the fastest possible path from idea to realization. At least when you have VB6 “in your fingers” like me. C-sharp could be an altermative, but my customers would not be happy about it.
the past two days I have been having issues I kept getting the BSOD!!! I thought it was my system so I reinstalled my entire system all over again then it wouldn’t let me get windows 11 back! Dell technicians spent the day working it out and finally was able to update back up to 11. WHAT A NIGHTMARE I LOST AN ENTIRE DAY OF WORK BECAUSE OF THIS AND NOT KNOWING THERE WAS A BUG UNTIL TONIGHT!! Like they couldn’t have let us know??? I was just about to send my newest laptop into dell because I cannot get the extra monitor to work with the laptop anymore; ITS RIDICULOUS!!! Who is going to pay me for my lost time? I am now two days behind on work because of their crap!~!! I AM LIVID
24H2 is still really new and it’s supposed to run into issue. I also wonder if you manually installed the update as opposed to an automatic rollout via Windows Update?
I looked around, and I’m not seeing issues with Visual Basic or 24H2. This could be also because not many people use it.
This sucks. Please feel free to create your own thread, so we can take a better look. Did you install Windows 11 24H2? Again, it’s not recommended to install the update manually, as you could run into BSODs. Always have a USB drive with Windows installed so you can boot to the desktop and take control of the system when it’s BSODing.
Also, I generally cover all issues with Windows updates, so do keep checking the site.
Windows is not that bad. It needs to be handled properly lately.
I installed it manually because it wouldn’t let me go further without updating so I went ahead and updated. It was the middle of the nght and after the update is when I started getting the BSOD. And I haven’t tested any updates; I’m just a paralegal trying to use my network Dell got most bugs worked out on the one system; they want me to send the other laptop in (still under warranty) because after he tried everything (and he was very good) however, he couldn’t get past the dell circle logo on the newer laptop when he was trying to hook my standalone monitor to work on the newer laptop. I had to reinstall the printer anyway but I didn’t have a problem with the printer. It seems I got the worst of the bugs on both updates; I was looking at everything to find out why it would be happening and I was even on the microsoft website and saw nothing about any bug; normally you hear about these things in the media but I was surprised how few knew about it, but I guess putting out that kind of information publically makes them look bad; and I guess they would rather people think it is their system and have people reinstall everything