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PRB: VB 3.0 Setup Wizard Does Not Not Work on Windows 95/98

Article ID: 129892

Article Last Modified on 10/20/2003

Microsoft Visual Basic 3.0 Professional Edition
Microsoft Visual Basic 3.0 Professional Edition

This article was previously published under Q129892

SYMPTOMS

When the Setup Wizard that ships with Visual Basic version 3.0 is run on Windows 95 or Windows 98, it gives this message:

This Program may not work correctly with Windows. For more information, click Help.

WORKAROUND

As the Help file suggests, the best solution is to use the Setup Wizard on a 16-bit operating system such as Windows version 3.1.

STATUS

This behavior is by design.

MORE INFORMATION

The Setup Wizard will copy Dynamic Link Library (.DLL) files contained in the WINDOWS\SYSTEM subdirectory, to the floppies containing your setup program. Some of these DLL files may be 32-bit, but have the same name as their 16-bit counterparts. One example of such a file is VER.DLL. If after setup, an attempt is made to use a 32-bit DLL on a 16-bit operating system by a setup program, it could cause a serious system error.

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