Crystal reports 7 and 9 (side by side)

Good morning everyone:
We have and old VB6 application that uses CR7 in one PC. We built a Windows .Net app that uses CR9. When installing the .net application, some of the CR7 dlls were replaced with the CR9 version (same names). This caused the VB6 app to stop working (because its dlls were not found anymore).
Is there anyway to allow CR7 and CR9 to live side by side? I mean, I would like both of my apps (.net and VB6) to work on the same client machine...
Thanks for any tips or help!

Hello,
No, CR 7 did not support side by side installs. That didn't happen until CR 9 and above, meaning CR 9 and older can not be on the same PC.
You may be able to work around it though but I've never tried it, copy ALL of the dll's from \windows\crystal into the application folder and change the working folder in the Icon to the app folder where the EXE is. I doubt it will work worth a try.
Thank you
Don

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