Agree with the above - if you just want back into programming, get Eclipse, a recent JDK, and teach yourself Java. That'll be absolutely free, and better than Visual Studio 6. ••• Quote Report ...
not sure if it's in the registry, but if you still have it on one of you're machines, you can go to the 'about' screen and read it from there... i.e. about visual basic 6.0 ...