Article ID: 259704
Article Last Modified on 8/15/2005
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 Enterprise Edition
This article was previously published under Q259704
SYMPTOMS
When you install Visual Studio 6.0 with the Oracle database product present, the installation may halt after the Visual Studio splash screen has appeared and may report the following error message (in which xxxxxxxxx represents a memory address):
CAUSE
Performance counters prevent the VS60wiz.exe file setup program from continuing.
RESOLUTION
To resolve this problem:
- Temporarily rename the ORANT folder on your hard drive to a different name. For example, ORANTX.
- Stop all Oracle-related Services and Processes, or boot in to SAFE MODE.
- Install Visual Studio 6.0.
- Rename the ORANTX folder back to its original name.
REFERENCES
For additional information about this error on Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 systems, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
192731 BUG: Hang or Application Error in Setup (VS60wiz.exe)
304604 PRB: Unable to Stop Services to install Visual Studio
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Additional query words: vssetup perf xxxxxxxxx VS60wiz
Keywords: kbprb KB259704
