P&D setup requiring reboot over and over on Win 2K 1

[jbradley]

On some Windows 2000 Pro workstations, when attempting to install a small application using a setup package created by the P&D Wizard, I receive a message that some system files are out of date and need to be replaced. After clicking OK to replace the files I am prompted to reboot.

When the PC comes back up and Setup is run again the whole process repeats. The file it seems to be choking on is SENSAPI.DLL. The system partition is formatted NTFS. If I try and rename, then replace the file I am prevented and am informed that the file is in use and cannot be renamed.

I know I've seen this problem discussed but I don't seem to be able to get Search to work correctly today.

Can someone suggest a work-around or solution to the problem?

 

[Stuartp]

Open up your Setup.lst file in Notepad and have a look under Bootstap files. Try deleting the line with the problem file, save it and rerun setup.

I have had exactly the same problem and never could pin down the cause. There is an article in the MS KB that discusses it (can't remember the link now but try searching for your error and you will find it). I tried everything they said re temp file directories etc and it didn't work for me.

You don't necessarily need to install these files for your program to work.

Good luck!

 

[jbradley]

Thanks. I checked in the temporary folder created by Setup to see what files were there when I got the error message (msvcrt.dll and sensapi.dll) and removed them from Setup.lst as you suggested. That did the trick.

 

[zemp]

See my post in thread222-445231 for more information.

zemp