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An error occurs when you install Visual Studio products

Article ID: 260513

Article Last Modified on 3/29/2007

APPLIES TO

Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 Professional Edition
Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 Enterprise Edition
Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Professional Edition
Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Enterprise Edition
Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 Enterprise Edition
Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 Professional Edition
Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 Standard Edition
Microsoft Visual FoxPro 6.0 Professional Edition
Microsoft Visual InterDev 6.0 Standard Edition
Microsoft Visual J++ 6.0 Standard Edition
MSDN 2003 Universal Edition
MSDN Library Subscription

This article was previously published under Q260513

SYMPTOMS

When you install Microsoft Visual Studio products on a Microsoft Windows 2000-based computer, you may see the following event viewer error message:

The description for Event ID ( 26 ) in Source ( Application Popup ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. The following information is part of the event: 16 bit Windows Subsystem, SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\VirtualDeviceDrivers. VDD. Virtual Device Driver format in the registry is invalid. Choose 'Close' to terminate the application...

CAUSE

This problem has one of the following causes:

The wrong Virtual Device Driver is installed for the operating system.
The Virtual Device Driver is incorrectly configured.

RESOLUTION

The resolution for this problem is discussed in the following Microsoft Knowledge Base article:

254914 Virtual Device Driver error message in 16-bit MS-DOS subsystem

MORE INFORMATION

You can troubleshoot the error message by using either the FileMon.exe file or the RegMon.exe file.

FileMon is a third-party tool that you can use to monitor file activity. For information about FileMon, visit the following Web site:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/filemon.mspx

RegMon is a third-party tool that you can use to monitor registry activity. For information about RegMon, refer to the following Web site:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/Regmon.mspx

If you use FileMon.exe or RegMon.exe, note that there are no entries that indicate that Setup.exe started. The system is interrupted before the Setup.exe file opens. Neither Visual Studio nor the MSDN Library is installed.

The third-party products that this article discusses are manufactured by companies that are independent of Microsoft. Microsoft makes no warranty, implied or otherwise, regarding the performance or reliability of these products.

Additional query words: VSSP4 NTVDM

Keywords: kbprb KB260513

Microsoft KB Archive/260513

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