Package & Deployment Wizard problems
I had the same problem installing a program with many files. My installation
took eight minutes.
I rang Microsoft .. they said there was no way round it.
I removed any reference to the datwav,jpg files in the Package and deploment
wizard. I put all the dat,wav,jpg files in a directory on the distribution disk
in a folder called Datafiles. I put a few lines in the setup1 program to copy
the files from the source directory to destination directory on the users
computer. These files were not added to the registry and were not uninstalled by
"add or remove programs" in the control program but it reduced the setup time to
30 seconds.
Quote:
> I hope you don't take this the wrong way, but are you sure you renamed your
> project in the project properties?. Even if you save it as
> "MySpecialProject", the name property will still be set to Project1 by
> default until you change it. I don't know the answer to your second
> question though, I never used 5.0. On the other hand there seems to be some
> issues with the way PDW cab file contents are registered on client machines
> and there is a lot of complaint on newsgroups about internet installs not
> working properly with 6.0. Namely on Win2000 machines that don't have
> Visual Studio installed it won't register the dlls and ocxs, and on some NT
> stations will prompt the user to reboot and after reboot the components will
> still be unregistered. Please let me know if you know a workaround for
> these.
> Cheers,
> Steve
> > I could hold off no longer. I upgraded from VB5 to VB6. Using the
> > P&Dlizard I have run into a couple problems.
> > First of all, in the setup.lst file that is created there is the
> > following section. Note the Project1
> > [Setup]
> > Title=Tarcus
> > DefaultDir=$(ProgramFiles)\Project1
> > AppExe=tarcus.exe
> > AppToUninstall=tarcus.exe
> > Where did Project1 come from and how can I stop it? The P&DW didn't
> > ask me for a destination directory. In the Select Icon Folder screen I
> > removed the Folder and item and then added an item. (no sense having a
> > folder with only one shortcut in it). Nowhere did I specify Project1
> > or see it as a default setting. I don't want to take a chance on
> > future packages slipping by without me remembering to edit the .lst
> > file when I'm all done creating the install.
> > My second problem has to do with speed. My project contains about 60
> > files (including some jpgs and wavs which are all just a few k each).
> > VB5's Application Setup Wizard created compressed files which I packed
> > up into a self extracting/self executing exe file. This method took
> > about 30-45 seconds to install. P&DW's cab file method takes over 5
> > minutes to install the same project.
> > I have VS ServicePack 4 installed.
> > Thanks for any help,
> > Robb
> > [VB6]
> > (remove autospam deterent from address before emailing)
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