Installing Visual Studio onto Vista

Here's a minor note for those installing Visual Studio 5 on Windows Vista. I had loads of problems with this, using this PC. Ultimately the reason I had problems was I basically attempted to install an older version of Visual Studio and related Patches and that screwed up the system. I was getting Package failing to load errors . If you try to uninstall the older version of VS and then attempt to install VS5 it still doesn't work.

What has worked for me is the following, after much reading around the problem. Uninstall Windows vista and then install Visual studio 5 then the VS SP1 and then the Visual Studio SP1 for Vista, in that order. The Service Packs can be found at the MSDN site.