Microsoft Windows Visual Studio 2026, 2019, 2017 and Visual Basic Professional 6.0 will not install
by Mountain Computers Inc, Publication Date: Saturday, December 13, 2025
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In the past few weeks, I needed to uninstall and re-install Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 and Visual Basic Professional 6.
** at the very bottom are the links for other editions and downloads (2019, 2017)...thanks!
I have three versions installed ((e.g. Visual Studio Professional 6.0, VS 2017, and VS 2019, ). Since Windows 11 Pro 24H2 was having issues, I decided not to wipe my operating system and start over. I decided to go into the deep end of my file system and registry to clean up the 7 years of heavy usage.
Note: I even had to use Microsoft InstallCleanup.exe to clear out Visual Studio remnants and that did a great job.
Now that everything was removed and cleaned, let's re-install everything, VS 2026 and VB 6 Pro (SP6)
Whoops... below are two sections of how to get things re-installed. VS Community 2026, and VB 6 Pro.
For Visual Studio Install to choose Visual Studio Community 2026
suddenly, I have noticed aka.ms is not reachable. Everything points to TLS inspection or some Microsoft/Digi certificate being re-assigned to my6.com. On the same system, with Windows 10 or 11 in a VM, no issues.
Launching the latest VisualStudioSetup.exe fails to reach aka.ms to download the vs_installer.opc file.
Just trying to reach https://aka.ms fails.
https://aka.ms/vs/18/stable/installer
After hours and days looking at my system to ensure everything is fine it came down to this:
Mozilla Firefox, in the address bar type in about:config and search for tls and temporarily set this to false.
If all works, then the following occurs and launch VisualStudioSetup.exe downloads and installs.
After your computer now finds aka.ms successfully, one can turn
network.proxy.proxy_over_tls setting back to
true and verify access to
https://aka.ms with the following results:
For Visual Studio Professional 6.0, I had to do some research.
1. Reinstall VB6 from my web folder \ tools and as adminstrator, SETUP.EXE (No need to drop UAC to off)
2. Put in my PID key, click Custom and Select All, then go into Data Components and remove ADO and RDS and some other data components I do not use.
3. The setup will fail. fine.
4. Restart the SETUP.EXE and then in Custom uncheck everything, and voila, the installation completes.
5. MSDN install is offered, and skip that.
6. Then install VB 6 SP6, SETUP.EXE as administrator and that installs.
7. Then the MS VB Wheel Fix needs to be installed, and that just needs to register the DLL, run the .REG file, and then in VB 6 go to Add-ins, find the Wheel Mouse and select it to loaded/unloaded and on startup.
That's it!
For 2022 Versions use the following
NOTE: For VS 2019, just change the link above from 17 to 16, and so on 15 for 2017, etc.
https://aka.ms/vs/16/release/vs_enterprise.exe
https://aka.ms/vs/16/release/vs_professional.exe
https://aka.ms/vs/16/release/vs_community.exe
https://aka.ms/vs/16/release/vs_buildtools.exe
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