Visual C++ 6.0 Crashing on Startup
August 17th, 2005
If you still need to occasionally use Visual C++ 6.0 (as I do), this advice is for you.
If the IDE starts crashing on you on startup, rename or delete this registry key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\DevStudio\6.0\Layout
That might fix it.
It took me forever to figure that out.
