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Installation programs
What caught my attention was your statement "I could not get the installation program to run *at all* " about when you tried to install ZA. I've encountered the same problem occasionally with both install EXEs and program EXEs, even with at least one SysInternal program. I tracked the source to Vista's Data

POR2 has serious install issue.
What is most important there might slowly arrive an extremely good installation tool. What is needed is an alliance to make a common handshaking system for the installation programs. </idea> Before this kind OS system arrives, I'm still seeking for a small distro who doesn't try to install every possible Audio,

How to write installation version program for the product we ...
The conclusion from above must be that Linux badly needs installation programs, like Micro$oft's installation and setup programs, who would make it easy -- even for the most stupid science journalists -- to smoothly set up a Linux system they can run and then smoothly load applications to the system.

Blocked Installation Programs
I put each reader install file in its own directory on the CD and instruct the user how to install it. Thanks. That is perfectly workable. But I believe it is better to have an installation program which pops up and offers the opportunity to install Acrobat Reader, checking whether it can find an existing version

Install PocketPC programs from CF card?
Please note its location and install it manually. jmartin2076 wrote: Ok I may be sounding like I don't know anything about computers but... I don't know how to manually install a program. I saved the file to my desktop but only know how to install it using a wizard. PA Bear [MS MVP] wrote: Windows version?

How to Install Software
Reverted that one machine back to SP1 and the program worked again. Most problems are caused by faulty installation programs, some by faulty programs. Then scandisk sometimes and never automatic (scandisk is not a data saving application but a disk repair utility - it will destroy your data to repair your disk).

Potential problems with Dell installation of Windows95 and ...
When installing SR-1, the patch may only partially install itself, omitting (among other things) an even newer version of Minet32.dll, resulting in a half patched version of Outlook (though SR-1 happily announces that it has installed successfully). I believe these problems are caused by the installation programs

Can't install program into SD card??? (and some more question ...
**Windows 2000 Patch: Driver Installation Program Does Not Install Device Drivers** Some driver installation programs don't work on Windows 2000 (W2K) after you install either Critical Update QFE 813044 or W2K Server SP4. The installation does not succeed and you receive an incorrect error that no drivers are

Please Add Newsgroup
What would be the "kinder and gentler" thing for the authors of these installation programs to do would be to have the user first answer all necessary questions about their computer's configuration and about what options they would like installed, and only afterwards actually do the installation.

Software installation on the PPC2003 emulator
Pierre Jelenc r...@panix.com comp os os2 apps Avi Schwartz <a...@ibm.net> writes: I hate those stupid installation programs! I installed StarOffice beta 2 earlier today. The installation program shut down my machine. Very annoying. Let me shut down when I am ready. After rebooting, I had some problems with the

CD Install Programs
I recently tried to install several programs using the windows live installer that downloads from microsoft - i get "Service "Windows Live Setup Service' (WLSetupSvc) could not be installed. verify that you have sufficent privileges to install system services." I am of course - an admin, and have also tried the

UAC
What might make it impossible for a software installation program to write to the registry? I have been trying to install software necessary to complete a DSL connection. The process aborts due to fatal error. The error is Failure to read registry key Software\Microsoft\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\ConnectionManag

What is the best VB friendly Installation program??
The bundled programs are mostly the same. The main differences are the installation programs and the package managers. By "installation program" I mean the program that installs Linux on your hard disk. By "package manager" I mean the system used to cleanly install or uninstall programs, or to replace an older

Idea: Linux for end users
I am soon going to release my first shareware program. All I need to do is "write" an installation program for it. MFC comes with InstallSheld, but it isn't clear as to how to use it. I am interested in writing a self-extracting installation program. Does anyone know how to do this? Thank you very much for your

Software Installation 101 :-)
wells...@amtelecom.ca wrote: "How to Install Software -- A 12-Step Program" by Dave Barry (from his new book, Dave Barry In Cyberspace) 1. Examine the software packaging until you find a little printed box that explains what kind of computer system you need to run the software. It should look something like this:

How To Install Software
The Temp folders should be cleaned out periodically as installation programs and hijack programs leave a lot of junk there. Index.dat Suite helps with this. http://www.it-mate.co.uk/support/idsuite.asp Insure that Index.dat Suite is Setup to empty the Temp folders especially C:\Documents and Settings\steve\Local

How To install software......too real...:-))))
Does your repackaged app ask for the id during install or the original? Terry "John Yee" <johnm...@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:039801c2fd2c$482ea500$3401280a@phx.gbl... Hi, I'm trying to find out if it is possible to supply a custom value to a repackaged installation program. Here's the scenario, I have an

Issues preventing successful completion of software ...
Bob T beam_me_up_sco...@hotmail.com microsoft public windowsxp general Many installation programs are not written properly to install a program on NT/2000/XP. They ignore the fact that these operating systems could have multiple users and they typically install the program with the program only showing up in the

Recommend a (non-Setup) installation program?
I believe what was trying to be said was that according to the Borland license agreement, you *must* use a "Borland Approved" installation program to You can redistribute only those BDE files selected by the Borland certified install program. Borland products which include redistribution rights include a

Can't install programs
r_z_aret@pen_fact.com microsoft public pocketpc Most Windows CE /Pocket PC installation programs run on a _desktop_ connected to a target that is connected via ActiveSync. I went to the first site you give, and followed along until it started to download an exe file. I didn't check further, but am quite sure that