Deployment problem with Windows 2000

[wabeers]

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wabeers (Programmer)
Sep 4, 2002

When I try to install a Visual Basic 6.0 application I developed on a customers PC that has Windows 2000 it will go through the 1st part of the installation prompting the user that it will replace a couple of system files and then asks to reboot the system. After rebooting the system and I run SETUP again it starts over and will not proceed past the replacing of the system files. So the application never gets installed. Is there anything I can do to install the application on Windows 2000. I installs just fine on Windows 95/98/XP.

Thanks for any help.

Bill

 

[MarkSweetland]

This is caused by a Microsoft "feature" called Windows File Protection. It restores any system file overwritten by an application installation program to the version installed via the original OS install/Service Pack/HotFix. Hence the continual reboot--the installation installs, and the WPF restores...

You'll have to make sure the production machine has the same servicePacks and/or Hot fixes installed as the development machine and the install will not attempt to update the "out of date" system file.


Description of WFP here:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q222193

Mark