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Visual Studio 6 C++ running in Windows 8.1


MSDEV.exe (Visual Studio C++ 6.0) crash in windows 8.1. Renaming to MSDEV2.exe and work perfectly

Reasons?


Solution

  • Reasons?

    VC++6 is pushing two decades old, first used against Windows NT 4: 6 versions ago. That it can run at all is a surprise.

    With details of the crash (eg. a stack dump) any more would be a pure guess.