title: Cannot get crystal reports 8.5 reports to run under Windows 8 for a VB6 project
body: <p>I have a rather large code base in visual basic 6. The database server is sql server 2000. For reports we are using Crystal Reports 8.5. I have been successful in installing the prerequisites including the visual basic runtime + sp6 components and everything else on windows 8 after a lot of googling. The only difference with installation of visual basic components on windows 8 in the fact that I had to uncheck installation of Data Access->Ado, RDS and Ole Db Providers. Now my crystal reports are not opening from inside my program AND the crystal reports 8.5 report designer. The error I get is "Unable to open SQL Server ". Does anyone have a solution? How do I install the ADO, RDS and OLEDB Providers manually?</p>